Geneviève Rocher and Galerie B-312 are pleased to inform you about Découpure, an exhibition of large-format drawings by Geneviève Rocher that is held at 3416 avenue du Parc in the environment of Hélène Barbeau's clothing store, a fashion designer. It was undoubtedly while passing regularly in front of the window at 3416 avenue du Parc that Geneviève Rocher had the idea of exhibiting drawings designed for the occasion. Was it to give herself additional constraints and thus stimulate her creative force? I don't think so, although there are constraints. If only that of seeing her works share the space of a showcase with models of clothing, with the risk that the works are taken for what they are not, a decorative background. In any case, Geneviève Rocher found in Hélène Barbeau an accomplice ready to open her space to the plastic cogitations of a painter. For at least ten years now, Geneviève Rocher has been working in gouache, on paper, in large format, and with the exploration of the singularity of the traces of the masters of abstract painting in mind. In the beginning, paper was used as a support, gouache was applied solid, the coloured surfaces were dense and opaque, and the image revealed motifs that were so many references to the masters of modern painting. But paper lost its strict function as a support when Geneviève Rocher began to fold, unfold, glue, paint and finally gather pieces of paper together, sometimes leaving gaps in the new surface thus obtained.-Geneviève Rocher continues in this vein, and the images continue to reveal an extreme rigour in what at first glance seems to be a random fabrication. But this time, the artist uses Japanese papers loaded with acrylic medium. The unpainted surfaces thus acquire an effect of transparency that accentuates a troubling sensation of fragility of the whole.

—Translated from a text by Jean-Émile Verdier