Safaa Erruas continues her exploration of passage and borders. She is interested in routes of passage and transit, particularly the notion of the strait, conceived as a space that may be more or less hostile or welcoming to inhabit. These territories, both geographical and internal, constitute what she calls “the interstice”.
Working with her preferred materials—paper, cotton, pins, needles, fiberglass, and metal wire—Safaa Erruas traces intersecting lines that establish a balance between void and fullness, shadow and light, accumulation and emptying. Parallelepipeds, paper ribbons, interwoven lines, and grids form the formal vocabulary of this new body of work.
In the exhibition catalogue, art critic Olivier Rachet evokes “cartographies of the intimate” that emerge through the artist’s sculptural interventions, writing: “A tenuous thread seems to connect the arms of the sea and the continents, like the invisible ridgelines that both shape and unsettle our beings”.
