Louise COLLET Pétrichor

With Pétrichor, Louise Collet continues a sensitive exploration of the connections between the natural world and the memory of landscapes. The exhibition’s title, borrowed from the term describing the smell of earth after rain, introduces a reflection on lingering traces and aftereffects, in which the landscape appears less as a motif than as a state of unstable and shifting presence.

Trained at the École Boulle, ENSAD, and Kyoto City University of Arts, Louise Collet has developed a practice at the intersection of drawing, printmaking, and publishing. Her work is rooted in a sustained attention to forms of reality, understood as signs of a sensitive relationship to the world. This approach involves a slow and meticulous temporality, grounded in observation, repetition of gesture, and variation, where precision of line and sensitivity to material become part of the same visual language.

The exhibition, presented in our Paris | Chapon – 21 space, brings together a selection of etchings, ink works on paper, and watercolors from recent works and several publishing projects. These pieces notably extend publications such as Un herbier and La forêt de Fontainebleau devoted to George Sand (Reliefs Editions), Les mains dans la terre (Ouïe/Dire Editions), and Des éclaircies (Fidèle Editions). Together, these bodies of work highlight the importance of the book within the artist’s practice, conceived as a space for experimentation inseparable from the practice of image-making.

In this context, Pétrichor offers a cross-sectional reading of her recent work, attentive to the discreet forms of living things and their processes of transformation, between appearance and disappearance, memory and immediate perception.

Opening
Friday 22 May 2026 
from 6:00 p.m 
in the presence of the artist

Exhibition
From Saturday 23 May
to Saturday 20 June 2026

PARIS | Chapon - 21
21 rue Chapon 75003 Paris
Wednesday > Friday 1.30 pm - 7.00 pm
Saturday 12 pm - 7.00 pm