Catherine Garrigue was born in Paris in 1954. She studied art history at the University of Paris (Centre Tolbiac) and trained in sculpture.
In 2011, after she experienced a major personal loss she redirected her creative energy from sculpture toward drawing. Through meditation, dreams, and altered states of awareness, she began accessing vivid internal imagery that she calls “mind-visions.” These intuitive experiences became the core of her new artistic direction.
Before drawing, Garrigue sets the room to essential presences; her hand, her chair, the table and the paper. This is the locality of her quiet theatre. The results are dark visual poems of the charged silent yet intensely populated shadow world of a dimension where her memories, her present and her amorphous future merge in pulsing clarity. Her multitudes are set free by the drawings.
Architecture merges with human presences as if we allowed a limited entry into a vast hall of her mysteries. The imagined interiors of her structures play with our senses… we are intrigued by the titles and the promise of answers but we will not receive them immediately. She offers a way of feeling, and a love of this silent world but she does not necessarily offer companionship. We are left to make our sacred journeys on our own using our own strengths and human powers to discover and ultimately persevere. It is a tough beautiful love.