26/08/2024 at 09:41
Words from a poetess.
Evelyne Toussaint
Confidences in Silence
Artworks, living beings. Evelyne Toussaint creates. Profusely. Passionately. Through sculpted faces and bodies, the artist reveals the innate spirit of clay and every earthy medium embraced by her restless, searching soul. A wealth of techniques is devoted entirely to a heightened emotional sensitivity.
The figures often come in pairs, bound together, their inner lives laid bare through their forms. One gazes out at us, the other watches the one looking our way, or looks aside—in a silent quest, a quiet yearning for connection.
They reveal themselves, laying bare pure, distilled silhouettes that at times appear ready to interlock. A subtle "collage" effect emerges in both her paintings and sculptures: the duos merge into a harmonious whole, like a three-dimensional puzzle of human feeling.
There is a ceaseless search within the forms and their balance. Mass and void, hollows and graceful curves. In the gentle forward bow of a neck, one reads humility and a reach toward communion with another. One is reminded of a swan. Yet there is also defiance, a quiet pride.
The deep blue of cyanotypes, the primal red of life, silent forms brimming with a presence undeniably born of love—the quiet, reverent love of one gazing upon another.
In the hands of this artist, the light radiates from within, offering itself to those who know how to truly see.
Juliette Demarbre, poetess
August 2024
Evelyne Toussaint
Confidences in Silence
Artworks, living beings. Evelyne Toussaint creates. Profusely. Passionately. Through sculpted faces and bodies, the artist reveals the innate spirit of clay and every earthy medium embraced by her restless, searching soul. A wealth of techniques is devoted entirely to a heightened emotional sensitivity.
The figures often come in pairs, bound together, their inner lives laid bare through their forms. One gazes out at us, the other watches the one looking our way, or looks aside—in a silent quest, a quiet yearning for connection.
They reveal themselves, laying bare pure, distilled silhouettes that at times appear ready to interlock. A subtle "collage" effect emerges in both her paintings and sculptures: the duos merge into a harmonious whole, like a three-dimensional puzzle of human feeling.
There is a ceaseless search within the forms and their balance. Mass and void, hollows and graceful curves. In the gentle forward bow of a neck, one reads humility and a reach toward communion with another. One is reminded of a swan. Yet there is also defiance, a quiet pride.
The deep blue of cyanotypes, the primal red of life, silent forms brimming with a presence undeniably born of love—the quiet, reverent love of one gazing upon another.
In the hands of this artist, the light radiates from within, offering itself to those who know how to truly see.
Juliette Demarbre, poetess
August 2024