ONE DAY PAINTINGS series
Ymane Chabi-Gara’s large format paintings explore isolation and the figuration of the body in space. The artist spends hours methodically crafting her drawing to then make it come to life by paintings layer by layer.
In between long hours of work or in between paintings, Chabi-Gara plays with small formats to regain inspiration. Titled one day paintings in echo to the timeframe in which the artist paints them, this series of works acts as a free space to explore different subjects and techniques. Often-time, she picks a decor detail from her larger pictures to expand it and make it become the subject, at the frontier between figuration and abstraction. This series of artworks are essential to Ymane Chabi-Gara’s work process, and have been exhibited in several personal and collective exhibitions (Fondation Sisley, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Emerige).