The Mrac Occitanie presents Nathalie Du Pasquier´s first major solo exhibition in a French museum. The French artist and designer conceived it as, in her own words, a Gesamtkunstwer–a “silent symphony”–composed of approximately one hundred works produced between the 1980s and today.

Nathalie Du Pasquier looks at reality as a catalogue “from which we can take everything"—she asserts—"and transform it into another world.” She has always been intrigued by the relationship between objects and the space in which they exist. Over the years, this process of investigation has taken form in paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books and ceramics—always poised between representation and abstraction, two-dimensional depiction and volume. Her painting is “expanded,” poetically playing with complex harmonies of forms, granting life to inanimate objects without imposing any narrative, leaving the interpretation up to the viewer. A painting exists as object, space or environment, in which any distinction between the work of art and its display structure has been erased.