Architecture de l'imaginaire

"Architecture de l'imaginaire"

from Saturday, March 15, 2025 to Saturday, May 10, 2025

Galerie XII Paris

There is something intangible in Patrizia Mussa's works that captures our gaze: the transcendence of images – generated by the artist who revives the imagination of these historical places through her interventions with pencil and pastel, and also made possible by her ability to find a perfect balance in the process of deconstructing and reconstructing the image. The originality of Patrizia Mussa's work lies in this pictorial gesture with which she offers these spaces a chosen identity. They are the actors with whom she shares the stage and who allow her to redefine the primary notion of photography. It is here that her artistic intention meets the very subject of theater and scenic spaces, in which the art of playing, speaking, and showing is determined. Her photographer's eye focuses on the details that allow the observer to recognize the places to which they belong, while her pastel interventions make them enter her imagination with intensity and softness. Patrizia Mussa's images are neither photographs nor drawings; they are a perfect combination of both, questioning practices and their representation in a resolutely contemporary manner. They are portraits of historical places conjugated in the present, constructed by the artist to legitimately respond to one of the fundamental destinations of Art, that of wonder.