"PLANS DE LUMIERE" - 16 Rue des Quatre Fils, Paris

The gallery is simultaneously presenting Planes of Light and Latent Bodies, two exhibitions dedicated to the recent works of Justin Weiler and François Maurin.

Both trained in drawing; they have made it a central principle that continues to shape their practices. In Justin Weiler’s work, the pieces unfold through glass and Indian ink on paper. The transparency of the materials, the layering of planes, and subtle shifts of light create unstable perceptual spaces, where the image gradually reveals itself over time and through the viewer’s shifting gaze.

François Maurin’s wall-mounted sculptures, crafted from carved wood and resin, engage directly with the body and presence. Their vertical forms, hollowed and tensioned through line, strike a balance between structural rigor and organic fluidity. The wall becomes a supporting plane from which the drawing extends seamlessly into the material.

With their shared focus on structure, materiality, and the conditions in which form comes into being, their works continue to explore questions inherited from modernity, particularly the interplay of line, space, and perception expressed through a fully contemporary visual language.

Presented in separate spaces, these two exhibitions reveal independent trajectories emerging from a common origin, where drawing continues to serve as an active framework, orchestrating the interplay between form, material, and space.
 

Justin Weiler — Plans de lumière

Justin Weiler’s work unfolds through glass and Indian ink on paper, investigating with care the very conditions in which an image arises. The transparency of the surfaces, the layering of planes, and the shifting play of light give rise to unstable spaces, perceptible only over time and through the movement of the gaze. The image never presents itself fully at once; it forms in strata, through successive filtrations, inviting a profoundly physical and sensorial experience of perception.

His works forge an intimate dialogue between geometry and openness, where surfaces act as thresholds rather than boundaries. Stripped down to their essentials, the structures orchestrate delicate balances between suspension and grounding, opacity, and transparency. Glass is not merely a medium here; it becomes a condition of the work’s existence, an active plane that captures, filters, and transmits light.

This attention to the perceptual qualities of the material places his work within a tradition where glass becomes a space rather than a surface, reminiscent of the explorations of West Coast American artists like Larry Bell. In Weiler’s work, however, this perceptual aspect is inseparable from drawing, which remains an invisible framework, guiding the arrangement of planes and directing the viewer’s gaze.

Through glass or ink, Justin Weiler creates works that are never fully closed, revealing forms that remain in constant relation to their surroundings and to the presence of the viewer.

- Henri van Melle