The world of Chourouk Hriech immerses us in the heart of phantasmagorical representations that seize us and assume the dimensions of the human scale, and in which the urban and the natural become entwined. These fragmentary representations in black and white layer periods of time as if they were landscapes. 

Originating in urban notetaking, in lectures and research, the lines traced by the artists form a vocabulary developed over the course of her travels.

For Chourouk Hriech, drawing is a practice that is at once ceremonial, ritual, and performative. Before starting the drawing, the artist conditions and appropriates the space with which the pencil will make contact. This action then requires a “whole-body engagement”, a total immersion accompanied by song. What does this world reflect ?, Chourouk Hriech asks us. What if the world is not reality itself but its reflection, what if an elsewhere incarnating the real exists but can only be revealed here, but deformed, as is the case with any mirror ? Henry-David Thoreau offers a possible answer in his journal : “Nature is nothing more than man’s expression of her, and her reflection of him.” The world that the artist’s works inhabit is without a doubt oneiric, a space of myriad fables and micro-narratives. 

In Clamart, Chourouk Hriech absorbed the surroundings of the art center—deep in a small peaceful garden—and in the environments of recent travels that lead her to discover striking cultures and landscapes, in order to imagine a project that would echo the architecture of the space. Summoning various mediums, photography, sculpture, installation, drawings, and murals, the artists offers and exhibition in which allegories and elements from her own memory are intermingled. She thereby immerses visitors in an atmosphere imbued with Durassian magnetism and brings to life a new facet of her artistic exploration.