Artists

Sasha Ferré

Press release

Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present 'Daughter of Earth and Water', Sasha Ferré's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from April 23 to June 7, 2025.

How to paint something that, once present and visible, will no longer obstruct my eyes or my body? How to paint so that my eyes and my body will encounter, before and around them, nothing but a crossable space: a medium, like a palpable ether, where seeing becomes endless, and the body limitless?

Sasha Ferré establishes space, meaning that she opens it. She is armed only with her approach to the canvas, this way of painting that resembles a dancer’s movement: her quick hand curls around itself, leading the body to follow.  Thus she advances, constructing and erasing at the same time, making a path through the openness. An oil stick becomes an extension of her hand and is warmed in her grasp, becoming fluid through contact with her skin. Her art is about fluidity, vital energy that is transmitted from the body to the instrument and from the instrument to the canvas—unless it’s the opposite, or even a constant back-and-forth: an exchange. When she paints, Sasha Ferré passes through, and something passes through her. The fluid flows in her as much as from her. This painting is life through actions, circulating and being transformed. Dance has taught her that a body that paints is a painted body, opened by painting as limitless action.
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— Pierre Wat, art historian and critic.