Each new exhibition by Rosmorduc (Ariane Rosmorduc, born in Brussels in 1967) is a marvel and a safeguard against boredom. The artist is unafraid to bring us close to strange and vibrant creatures, emerging from a fertile and overflowing imagination.

After a vegetal period characterised by the preceding “Tumbleweeds” theme, her new work draws inspiration from the mineral world,a realm inert by nature and soulless. The stone, weary of doing nothing since the dawn of time, begins to un-petrify, entering a surprising metamorphosis, aspiring toward a gentler realm it can only dream of. What the artist paints is the crucial moment of transformation when the mineral, still hard and gray, slowly slips toward the organic, shimmering with orange and magical green-blue hues. The stone, adorned with encrustations and honeycombs, already seems alive,breathing, just a little. Here, we are invited to observe oddities; a creature in the making, a mollusk shaped like a vulva, a monkey or a horse not yet complete and also, a heart of stone, a spermatozoon opening into a breast… While nothing seems more obvious, at first glance, than the divide between organic and inorganic, between the animate and the inanimate, Rosmorduc shatters all such boundaries. She offers instead a kind of etiological fable, where nothing is lost, nothing is created, but everything is transformed. And there is no despair in this, for the metamorphosis of stone into living organ is a cry of joy, cast onto the canvas. This metaphor reminds us that, to ensure our survival, it is only our power to adapt that can keep us from a tragic fate.