Claire FORGEOT
Since 2004, when she was struck by the sight of a mountainside ravaged by fire on a Greek island, Claire Forgeot has explored the traces fire leaves on the landscape. For nearly fifteen years, charred black has been at the heart of her research.
In 2019, a new body of work began with a series of drawings titled Les jardins consumés (The Consumed Gardens). Claire Forgeot shifted her focus from blackness to the act of burning itself. Using a heated point, she pierces and burns the paper, creating a counterpoint to an initial layer in graphite or black stone.
Through large-scale drawings of trees, plants and landscapes - each a marker in her personal history - she creates a metaphorical herbarium.
Her graphic work now holds a central place in her artistic practice. She needs time to let it unfold.
In 2023, she was invited to the Festival du dessin in Arles (Fondation Luma, France).
In 2024, her works accompanied a symposium on water organised by the Chapel for Europe in Brussels. That same year, Petalouda Art Gallery presented a major collection of her drawings on the Greek island of Naxos.
From late 2025 into 2026, La part du feu (The Share of the Fire), a presentation of her work from the past twenty years, was shown for three months at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Anglet, France.
Herbier des îles de l'archipel
Limonium en baguettes
Herbier des îles de l'archipel
Thimbre à têtes