Eternal Passing
28/05/2026 - 25/06/2026
The exhibition Eternal Passing is built upon an oxymoron. It is within this seemingly contradictory relationship to time that Camille Dufour and Béatrice le Hodey converge, each interpreting the theme through their respective artistic practices.
Camille Dufour perceives in this idea of an eternity in flux a commitment to our environment. Her prints foreground the threat weighing upon the world we inhabit. Through her canvases, printing plates, and fabrics, she explores disappearance using natural pigments and petals, a way of denouncing the collapse of a natural world once believed to be immutable, yet whose permanence is now compromised by our actions. Her work invites us to slow our gaze and attend more closely to what appears ordinary. In doing so, what often remains unseen reveals itself as essential to the balance of living systems.
Through Thwaites, she activates a process of erasure in which the melting of glaciers becomes an operative metaphor. During performances, Camille Dufour allows water to intervene, dissolve, and transform her prints. Painting and printmaking overlap, contaminate one another, and fade; water acts as an agent of dissolution and mutation, gradually altering the image until it is submerged.
Béatrice le Hodey, by contrast, sees this relationship to time as an invitation to anchor oneself in the present. Since the eternal, by definition, escapes the passage of time, her vision stands in opposition to the ephemeral in order to evoke the essence of things. Her oil and acrylic landscapes, drawn from memory and subsequently reshaped through imagination, reveal instinctive organic forms.
Clumsiness is not only embraced but deliberately sought, enabling her to push further into the evocation of earth, water, mountains, and the landscape of the soul she seeks to render present, while color detaches itself from realism to become dreamlike, even “fauvist.”
She creates enveloping poetic horizons in which forms and colors seem to draw us into a floating reverie, gradually blurring familiar points of reference and leading us toward a sensitive, affective space. These worlds are inhabited by an intrinsic tension: that of a desire for transcendence, elevating the work into a symbol, perhaps even beyond the canvas itself.
-Belgian Gallery
Dufour Camille le Hodey Béatrice
