Voorlinden is proud to current the primary main museum-wide retrospective of the work of Claire Tabouret (1981). The French painter’s solo exhibition Weaving Waters, Weaving Gestures showcases the exceptional breadth of her oeuvre, her boundary-defying practices, and her exploration of advanced themes equivalent to identification and human relationships. Along with this solo exhibition, her stained-glass home windows for Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will probably be unveiled later within the yr.
Portray on canvas, fake fur, plexiglass, bronze, and ceramics, no medium is past Tabouret’s attain. A figurative painter who stretches the standard boundaries of her craft, she attracts on art-historical themes whereas reflecting on human connections and the methods we see ourselves—each as people and as a part of a collective. Her portraits typically maintain a mirror to the viewer: do you see energy, or vulnerability? Her palette is vibrant, typically virtually fluorescent, at different instances composed of delicate, translucent layers. Her work will be classical and romantic, but darkish and mysterious, infused with private narratives, recollections, and located imagery sourced from archives or the web.
At Voorlinden, Tabouret presents work from the previous decade. Guests are greeted by a collection of self-portraits wherein she depicts herself as a vampire, clad in a hoodie. She then engages with conventional genres equivalent to bathers, landscapes, mourning girls, and reflections. Working with seemingly unimaginable supplies, pictures of detainees, and unconventional crafts, she relinquishes management over the end result of her work. All through her numerous oeuvre, echoes emerge between items and collection, revealing an artist continuously testing each herself and her medium.
2026 is a particular yr for each Claire Tabouret and Voorlinden; the museum will have a good time its tenth anniversary, and the French artist’s stained-glass home windows will probably be put in in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. She was chosen for this fee by President Emmanuel Macron and the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, as a part of the restoration following the main fireplace in 2019. In recent times, Tabouret’s star has risen internationally; her work has obtained widespread acclaim and is included in quite a few museum collections, together with the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and the Pérez Artwork Museum Miami. Voorlinden will host her first solo exhibition within the Netherlands. Tabouret was born in France, lived for ten years in Los Angeles, and returned to France in 2025.
