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Bio
Born in the French region of Brittany, Christine Robion has always been a painter. She has also been interested in photography, which she studied in Germany. Living both in Paris and abroad, Christine has worked in highly varied environments for years that in subtle ways have influenced her work and allowed it to develop and be affirmed by the rhythm of places. From Berlin, where she exhibited for the first time in 1978 to Guadeloupe to Paris where she lives now, Christine's path has also taken her to Cameroon, Cyprus, Greece and Burkina Faso. In each of these countries, she has worked and exhibited, all the while focusing on a style and perfecting a technique linked inseparably to a narrative project.
Statement
Christine ROBION's latest novel "La Galeriste de Thessalonique" tells the story of Mirca Angel, who in the 80s opened the Galerie Pléiades in Athens and offered Robion the first major exhibition. Mirca died in 2007. Athens seems to have kept no trace, neither of Mirca Angel nor of her art gallery.
17 works Robion created between 1990 and 2024 complete the novel.
« … There were seven of them, the Pleiades, all daughters of Atlas and an Oceanid. Mirca was the youngest of a family of girls. She always told me that she was proud to be Greek. The name Mirca comes neither from ancient Greek nor Byzantine Greek. The eldest was called Maïa, the second Celeno, the youngest was not called Merope but Carolina, and no one ever called her by her real name... »
As author and visual artist Robion brings together fragments of texts, simple signs juxtaposed on the canvas like so many extras of the world whose importance only survives through the memory they evoke.
