Cosmographie PM8

In her recent and unprecedented work, Martine Rey employs a handful of tools and pure matter, making use of simple elements - paper or fabric, to create with only water and lacquer, and reveal the space-time continuum she holds dear.
Inspired by the "Suminagashi" technique - ink floating on water, the Japanese ancestor of European marbled papers, the artist’s "Urushi Nagashi" summon the precious help of the elements (air, water and sun) to draw in the movement of water and generate the polymerization of the lacquer, thereby revealing floating worlds. From micro to macro, her cosmoses unfold on papers and fabrics like imaginary maps, crossroads, new geographies where plant, mineral and celestial sensations merge.