Revealing Different Worlds Within
Exhibition Saint Denis Reunion Island, March 2000

The drawings

Marie-Denise Douyon unveils for the first time during this exhibition, eight sketches of women created from a live model.The mediator of techniques openly reveals the state of the artist's mind. Is it an illusion, or a communion with the artist's soul, or have we approached her core?

These eight feminine figures, which are actually one, represent the woman as a pillar, a veritable ode to life. Fluctuating between slender fragility and a haughty rebellion, each carries in herself a plenitude for the human race, during moments of vulnerability, nostalgia or abandonment, with nothing to spare. This is what confers an absolute nobility to them, always with a glow of tender glance accented by the use of pastels (in a blue monochrome) and the purity of the live drawing, that melts in an exquisite and ultimate gesture.

Maryse Alcindor
March 2000