Louise Pressager, Winner of the Prix Spécial du jury du 59ème Salon de Montrouge

The Latin cross is a recurring motif in the exhibition by Louise Pressager (born in 1985, lives and works in Malakoff). As a synthesis of the horizontal and vertical dynamics at work in society, the cross symbolizes for the artist social climbing and falling, the quest for spiritual elevation but also the horizontal deployment of energy. Her drawings, objects, photos and videos associate religious and medical symbols in order to address the tensions between competition and solidarity, marginality and obstinacy by underscoring the absurdity of our customs and hopes.

Louise Pressager unapologetically and humorously grapples with the themes of sexuality, health, religion and work. Drawing from daily life and her personal experiences, she questions with an incisive sense of irony universal subjects such as belief, the hunger for success, suffering and what is left unsaid. Louise Pressager’s view of existence, either collective or intimate, is all the more trenchant as her work employs a simple visual language and a great sparseness of plastic and formal means.

Curator: Bernard Marcadé

The exhibithion benefits of the support of the city of Montrouge and the Salon de Montrouge

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