Figure and signs . 2023
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Scraped to the bone and extra lean, Mathilde Denize’s pastel paintings are strangely reminiscent of carcasses with bare flanks. On frameless canvases, flesh-colored shreds rise to the surface, silhouettes in diluted hues and other torn shapes that, from a distance, give the illusion of anthropomorphic forms. In contrast to the current appetite for figurative painting, eagerly served up by a new generation uninhibited after many meager years, Mathilde Denize adheres to an allusive abstraction in which bodies dissolve in milky transparency, revealing different layers and softening the whole, removing any carnivorous temptation.
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