The Breath of Time in Dannie Launay’s Work
With her new series of semi-abstract paintings, Dannie Launay marks a powerful return to her original visual language. Titled The Breath of Time, this body of work explores themes of transition, memory, and cosmic energy with a gesture that is both controlled and deeply expressive.
At a time when the contemporary art market seems to be rediscovering the virtues of figurative painting, Dannie Launay boldly moves in the opposite direction. With heartfelt sincerity, she returns to a sensitive abstraction, far from effect-seeking, rooted instead in breath and resonance.
A Return to Abstraction: Continuity or Renewal?
“What I used to do was abstraction,” the artist confides. “And I’m returning to it with total joy.”
This return is not a denial, but rather a reaffirmation—a continuity of an inner voice that probes the metamorphoses of form, the trembling of matter, the invisible forces shaping the visible.
Three Core Themes : Space-Time, Melting Snow, Cosmos
In The Breath of Time, three powerful themes emerge across Dannie Launay’s latest canvases:
- Space-time : a visual meditation on time beyond clocks or chronology.
- Melting snow : a metaphor for disappearance and transformation.
- The cosmos : a field of intuitive energies, silence, and suspension.
These elements are not depicted literally. They are felt—expressed through floating forms, fused tones, and a tactile surface that seems to breathe. Each painting feels like a condensation of emotions, a suspended moment, a fragment of atmosphere.
A Painting of Stillness and Suggestion
Launay’s brushstroke is economical yet charged. She avoids spectacle and instead embraces a painting of stillness, of listening and suggestion. Her images invite us to dwell within them, not dominate them.
The Breath of Time: An Abstraction that Lives and Breathes
The unifying thread throughout this series is time—not measured time, but experienced time. Time of the body, of memory, of passage. With The Breath of Time, Dannie Launay reminds us that abstraction is not a style, but a way of inhabiting reality differently.
Through her canvases, she transforms time into pictorial substance, emptiness into presence, and painting into a space where the world still breathes.
Why Follow Dannie Launay Now?
- She brings a renewed and emotionally resonant abstraction to contemporary painting.
- She is one of the emerging French female artists whose work blends coherence with authenticity.
- The Breath of Time resonates with our deepest contemporary concerns—time, transformation, and remembrance.
In a Few Words :
Dannie Launay doesn’t paint the world as it appears—but as it breathes. With The Breath of Time, she invites us to slow down, feel deeply, and be present.
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