Isabelle Cridlig

My work is about the process of time passing through forms and transforming them. By observing, feeling, sketching the world, ideas of growing drawings sprout in mind like seeds. Each idea can be planted - directly on the walls, in the landscape, or on paper, cardboard... - and so the body draws and the drawing grows... A performative and meditative experience.
The line is recording the flow of time, punctuated by the repetition of the graphic action, drawing the expanse of duration - a surface of time.



Born in France. After my studies (Biology, Pedagogy, Art) I traveled and lived many years around the world, curious about nature, botany, arts, cultures, languages... I stayed and worked about ten years in Madagascar island. Back in France in 2012, I studied a master's degree in Art and wrote a university research paper on Sol LeWitt and wall drawing.

MA in Arts | Université de Lorraine (FR) | 2010-2012
CEAP | Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cherbourg (FR) | 1995-1997

2-years-degree in Biology and Botany |1987
3-years-degree in Pedagogy |1987


THEORETICAL RESEARCH
Sol LeWitt : From Grid to Scribble | Lecture at Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR) | 2013
Sol LeWitt, the Drawing and the Machine | research paper, Université de Lorraine (FR) | 2012

(selection)
The Derwent Art Prize, London (GB) | 2014
La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse | 2016
Musée de la Cour d’Or, Metz | 2017
Artime gallery, Luxembourg (L) | 2018
Hic et nunc, Metz | 2019
Atelier Wolosko, Metz (FR) | 2019-2020
La Fileuse, Reims (FR) | 2021
Zentrum August Clüsserath, Dillingen (DE) | 2022
Drawing House, Paris (FR) | 2022
FuelBox, Luxembourg (LU) | 2023