Charlotte Houette

— Baby Horse —

16 septembre - 17 octobre

simultaneously part of Liste Art Fair's Showtime Online : https://showtime.liste.ch/gallery/cocotte

Drawing formal inspiration from children popup books, these works are a new development of Houette’s habit of creating openings in her paintings, which for previous series took the form of model-like built-in windows, importing transparency and reflections within the usually opaque canvas surface.

In this new series, the windows have made way for a subtle sliding system acting like a folding screen, that can be manipulated to progressively reveal a screen-print image, or on the contrary to camouflage it completely within the hand-painted starry of flowery pattern of the painting.




Contemporary Art Library, Scandale Project















Baby Horse 1, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 1, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 1, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 2, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 2, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen



Baby Horse 2, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 3, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 3, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 3, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 4, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 4, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 4, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 5, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 5, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen


Baby Horse 5, 2021, 100x75cm, vynil paint on canvas, carboard, silkscreen