Sans titre

In this painting, the silk papers lined with furrows reveal the infinite dialogue of materials.

From the early 1970s onwards, Bernadette Bour focused her abstract practice on reduction in an approach that led her to explore signs and materials. She used cotton cloth, silk paper, blotting paper and gauze. She ripped, perforated, sewed, superimposed and saturated her canvases with colour. Between 1973 and 1978, her works were, in her own words, "machine-pencilled". The layers of different materials are unified in a single set. Their interaction constitutes the richness of a language that is modulated through repetition, continuation and progression.