Jérôme Sans - Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau
Drawing Lab, Paris

Exhibitions Curator

For the Drawing Lab, Chourouk Hriech deploys a metaphorical geography linking Bangkok to Casablanca, Tokyo to Marseille, a world-city whose first inhabitants are birds. His kaleidoscopic visions telescope in a space entirely taken over by black and white drawings, which extend from the scale of a sheet of paper to that of a wall, as well as in immersive installations and videos. A rich journey that encourages reverie and wandering, as well as a physical and mental experience of space, metamorphosed into a "new environment": here the animal, human and plant kingdoms merge with the stratifications of cities and landscapes.


Designed to echo the dramas that unfold in the skies, forests, plains, marshes, ponds and cities, the exhibition invites the viewer to navigate through life-size fables made up of mixtures and coexistences of forms, cultures and eras, but always in touch with reality.

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"Drawing is, in a way, an ecosystem [...]. It is a world within the world of representation."

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Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

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Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Exhibition view, Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur 

Chourouk Hriech - I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau, Drawing Lab, 2022, © Nicolas Brasseur