TATIANA GORGIEVSKI
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PARIS-B gallery is pleased to present Un corps qui tient,
Tatiana Gorgievski’s first solo exhibition in its PB Project space.
While Tatiana Gorgievski’s earlier research explored the fragmentation or fusion of bodies within constrained spaces, this new series, titled Un corps qui tient, marks a shift toward the affirmation of the figure.
For Tatiana Gorgievski, painting is a way of confronting reality without the mediation of language. A former student of philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, she set aside theoretical analysis to explore a truth that cannot be stated, but must instead be experienced through the senses.
Her work unfolds through a deeply introspective process: the canvas becomes the vessel of an inner search in which the image is not predetermined, but extracted from the medium itself. In this practice of immediacy, without sketch or fixed plan, she allows color to spread freely across the surface, then draws from the forms that emerge, deepening them as they appear. Within this dialogue with matter, the physical, almost epidermal qualities of paint awaken emotion and guide the movement of the work.
“Tatiana Gorgievski’s painting is driven by an energy of porosity.
Sharpness or blur, cool or warm colors,
all pulse through the canvas to make bodies emerge or fade away.”
— Elora Weill-Engerer
The title, Un corps qui tient, suggests both the individual’s resistance to the world and the possibility of holding, or being held, by another. The exhibition investigates how a presence maintains its hold, even as its boundaries begin to fade.
Within this intimate dialogue on canvas, Tatiana Gorgievski explores what emerges in interaction: identity, emotion, and the bond with others. The body becomes a source of support, a place of mutual anchoring in representations of love or desire, yet it can also be a site of fracture. Stripped of their protective membrane, these figures are no longer merely threatened by dissolution; they seek their own stability and presence through contact or confrontation.
The figures that arise inhabit a state of suspension, where presence asserts itself forcefully at the very moment it threatens to vanish. By suspending all certainty, Tatiana Gorgievski allows ambivalent states to coexist: tenderness mingles with a form of latent brutality, and the impulse of desire seems inseparable from a sense of loss
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Born in Paris in 1997, Tatiana Gorgievski lives and works in Paris. After a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2020), she chose to anchor her conceptual research in materiality and joined ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, where she graduated in 2024. Her work quickly gained international attention through residencies at the Moonens Foundation and in Los Angeles (The Cabin), as well as through her recent solo exhibitions in Brussels. Present at major art fairs such as Art Brussels and NADA New York, she stands out today as one of the most original voices of a new generation of painters.