Laure Pigeon's work unfolds anew in a sea of blue: the exhibition Infiniment Bleu leads us into the spiraling lines and flowing color spaces of an artist who created beyond the familiar.
The French artist Laure Pigeon only began drawing at the age of 53 - and left behind an incomparable oeuvre of around four hundred drawings, many of which were created under the influence of spiritualist practices. Her hand detached itself from the familiar, stroked paper with ink and let lines roll up, intertwine, mix words and images as if they were dreams that became visible. In the first phase, curved lines, threads of text and dense networks dominate - as if the artist had laid out and followed the threads of her unconscious. In the second phase, from around 1953, the blue spreads out in all shades - from sky blue to deep black. This blue becomes a space, a mood, a meditation, a trace of a universal space.
The exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne shows these rarely shown works - including previously unknown sheets - and invites us to see Laure Pigeon not just as a historical marginal figure, but as an artist whose work is powerful, consistent and independent. There is no search for recognition in her drawings, but a different goal: a kind of redemption, a recourse to memories, a reconciliation with oneself and others, a return to the hand that simply follows the page.
Walking through this exhibition, you can feel how the paper becomes a spatial and experiential surface. The blue is no longer just a color, but a dense state: it carries, encloses, is silent, speaks. Laure Pigeon teaches us that art is not a question of technique alone, but of a state, a transition, a sensation - and that a world can lie hidden in the simplest means, as far as the unconscious and at the same time as close as our tangible.
In Infiniment Bleu, we find a work that touches us silently and lastingly, and remains in our memory - as a trace of light, as a line, as blue that presents itself endlessly, as art that cannot be held on to, only guessed at.
October 10, 2025 to February 1, 2026
