Debbi Kenote and Manon Daviet create playful and meditative imaginary worlds from elements of nature. Their works adopt the exuberant forms, textures, and colors of fantasized landscapes, which are respectively deconstructed and narrative. While Kenote creates semi-abstract compositions from memories of the countryside, Daviet elaborates candid natural fantasies. The thematic overlap between the works of the two artists is expressed in distinct mediums. Kenote paints in acrylics on canvas. Her paintings, with their flat surfaces and non-rectangular shapes, remind the modernist tradition of shaped canvases. Daviet, on the other hand, makes elaborate tapestries with a personal technique that mixes knitting and crochet. The two bodies of work, which have a strong material presence and display bright and luminous colors, echo each other as much on the formal level as on the thematic one. They offer a convergent reflection on art and nature.
