Danielle ORCHARD

Danielle Orchard's oeuvre regularly summons the history of painting, from Cézanne to Picasso, from Bonnard to Matisse, whether through stylistic references to the multiple perspectives of analytical cubism, or through the recurrence of subjects. From an imaginary museum to a reclining odalisque that Orchard revisits with the gaze of a 21st-century artist – the paintings in the exhibition Page Turner echo, in a conscious and direct way, the master of young girls, the nude and suspended time. Omnipresent and displaced, timeless and abstract, Orchard's female figures appear nude in the familiarity of everyday scenes. The artist plays with movement and form, to twist reality and distort context, giving these daily activities an allegorical and sacred character.