Exhibition: Mémoires du paysage

Exhibition: Memories of the Landscape
Caroline Bouyer / Ariane Fruit
Through September 20, 2026
Louis-Senlecq Museum of Art and History, L’Isle-Adam

From April 12 to September 20, 2026, the Louis-Senlecq Museum of Art and History is hosting a temporary exhibition dedicated to the engravings and drawings of Caroline Bouyer (Galerie Nathalie Béreau) and Ariane Fruit (Galerie Documents 15, Paris).

Caroline Bouyer’s engravings—depicting railway surroundings, Parisian construction sites, the gates of the ring road, and the blast furnaces of Dunkirk—enter into dialogue with Ariane Fruit’s works, which evoke nocturnal views of Paris, landscapes along the Petite Ceinture, and the seemingly endless Rue de Rome.

These industrial-urban spaces then give way to the vastness of Canadian forests and the beaches and cliffs of Normandy, drawn and engraved by Ariane Fruit. The exhibition continues with Caroline Bouyer’s engravings, in which the organic meets the inorganic in masterful, dreamlike compositions.

Through this exhibition, which brings together more than a hundred works, the two artists offer a shared reflection on the transformation of territories and the memory of places, straddling the line between documentary observation and poetic imagination.

Caroline Bouyer – Composition 81, “Palimpsestes” Series, 2025
Drypoint engraving, printed in multiple passes, with collaged paper, single print
28 × 38.5 cm. © Photo: Atelier 80

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The artist’s career, writings, and works:
Caroline Bouyer