Giboni Christine

Christine Giboni lives in Paris as one inhabits a language: with passion, precision, and a certain insolence. For years, she has been weaving a visual style of writing in which the urban becomes matter and letters become characters. She combines painting with collage, without hierarchy, allowing them to interact naturally, like two instruments in the same breath.

Her abstract canvases breathe like a musical score. We hear the silences between two chords of color, the syncopations in the rhythm of decomposed words. The typography is alive, scratched, erased, sometimes stripped down to the bone. It does not narrate, it pulses. Christine Giboni does not seek meaning, but impact; she prefers the bodies of letters to their discourse, fragments to the whole.

We can guess in her  work the influences of Basquiat or the silence lyricism of Zao Woo-Ki. Between brilliance and erasure, she traces a sensitive cartography of the city, made up of layers, accidents, and silent verticals. Her words, in strips or falling, draw intimate architectures where white is never empty; it is tension, expectation, breath.

 

      

 

"Impressions" series

In the urban jungle, walls speak, or at least they try to. Layers of posters overlap, fade, tear, leaving behind fragments of slogans, broken promises, silent cries. Impressions captures this visual echo: a fragmented memory, an involuntary archive of advertising turmoil. Like modern palimpsests, these walls reveal what the present tries to crush, the stubborn vestiges of a past stuck with strong glue.

 

"Fashion" series

Beneath the folds of clothing are phrases. Beneath trends are intentions. Fashion explores the silent language of appearance: what our clothes say about our era, its power games, its sometimes borrowed freedoms. Behind elegance lies the affirmation of a "self" searching for itself in the reflections of the world. The words of fashion are sometimes brilliant, sometimes hurtful: they dress as much as they reveal.

 

"Word Strips" series

Here, words rise up. Literally.

Inspired by the raw verticality of metropolises, Word Strips erects fragments of language into visual columns. Snippets of text torn out and juxtaposed, like building facades, form an abstract urban map.

These constructions of paper and ink remind us that the city is never silent: it writes, it shouts, its chants, high above.

 

 

Mari YVENAT

 

 

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