For me, creating is not a choice but an organic necessity, a kind of excretion of the mind — an overflow that must find an outlet.
Sato Gallery welcome the Paris based artiust Louise Tilleke.
Louise paints, draws, and films. Her work has been exhibited at Galerie Catherine Houard, Galerie RX, Galerie DX, Galerie Guillaume, Hôtel Costes, and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She was nominated for the Marin Prize, whose jury was chaired by David Hockney. Presented by Vladimir Veličković at the Institut de France, she received the Alphonse Cellier Prize. Her works are now part of several public and private collections.
For this exhibition at Sato Gallery, Louise Tilleke presents a selection of works developed over the past ten years, yet never before exhibited. She refers to this body of research as claviérisme.
Claviérisme is based on languages constructed from signs taken from the computer keyboard — typographic emoticons, Kaomoji (Japanese emoticons), Blissymbols (a pictographic language created by Charles K. Bliss for communication), among others — to compose paintings on canvas.
This corpus is conceived as a space of creation rather than communication. Diverted from their original function, these signs become figures or body fragments — distant echoes of proto-writing systems. They are rooted in our digital age while questioning our constant need to represent, code, and re-enact the world through symbols.
The term claviérisme evokes both the keyboardist — for its search for rhythm and musicality — and the gesture itself: an exploration of writing and play, sustained by a continuous tension between constraint and freedom.
Practical Information
Sato Gallery — 58 rue Charlot, 75003 Paris (2F)
Exhibition : November 14th – November 23th
Opening Hours : Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–7pm (closed Sunday & Monday)
Free admission