The twenty-eight drawings on display at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon, were made in two Lisbon residences at the Hangar Artistic Research Centre, in August, 2018 and June-July, 2019.
Produced in charcoal on cotton canvas, each measures approximately 150 x 80 cm. Some may also contain zinc oxide pigments mixed with an acrylic binder. The proportions refer to those of the human body. Suspended vertically on the walls of the exhibition space, they are presented inside a device of mirrors, in a face-to-face manner with the viewer.
Christine Enrègle, visual artist, born in 1973 in Suresnes (Paris), PhD in Visual Arts at the University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008). She is a professor of Visual Arts at the “École Supérieure de Design”, Condé, in Paris. During her PhD, she received university scholarships to study in Brazil, at the Belo Horizonte School of Fine Arts (Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG).
As 1st artist in residence at the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro in 2004, she has participated since 2017 in several artistic residencies in France and abroad, particularly in Lisbon where she exhibited at the National Society of Fine Arts in July 2020. In 2021 she will present her drawings at the National Museum of Natural History and Science.
She has participated in individual and group exhibitions in France, Portugal, Brazil and South Korea, where, in 2017, she received 1st prize at the international exhibition organized in Seoul by the Korean Society for Color Studies.
