Christian Bonnefoi, Diagramme / Sarah Brahim, She Said : It’s Always Two Bodies
Galerie Poggi is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Christian Bonnefoi (b. 1948), titled “Diagram,” featuring a representative selection of works from his major series dating back to the 1970s. The title refers to the Diagram initiated by the artist in 1994, both a method and a work, which organizes his practice as a dynamic network of series. A true conceptual matrix, this framework connects the works to one another beyond techniques and periods, beyond formal registers, forming a constellation where each pictorial state carries within it the seeds of its future developments.
Through a selection of series such as Babel, P.L., and Dos, the exhibition highlights a body of work centered on the depth and stratification of the pictorial plane. Through the interplay of collage, superimposition, and transparency, Christian Bonnefoi disrupts the relationships between surface and background, front and back, overturning the traditional conventions of painting. “Diagram” thus invites us to view the work as a process in perpetual flux, an open space for experimentation.
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Alongside Christian Bonnefoi’s exhibition, the gallery presents in its Project Space a video installation by American-Saudi artist Sarah Brahim (b. 1992), titled “She Said : It’s Always Two Bodies“. The work explores the body and our experience of movement through a lens that is at once scientific and spiritual. The installation unfolds as a subtle synthesis of form and function, in which the artist’s body becomes both instrument and medium, engaging with matter, moving through it, and at times surrendering to it.
A soundscape of crackling textures and hushed whispers deepens this immersion, drawing the viewer into the inner strata of the earth itself. What emerges is a dual gesture: on the one hand, a probing into the very flesh of the world; on the other, the lingering trace of that encounter
