For its 8th edition, the salon is thrilled to announce a collaboration with the Drawing Hôtel. This partnership seeks to create connections between drawing and photography, highlighting artists who seamlessly merge the two disciplines. To mark the inauguration of this collaboration, French artist Juliette-Andréa Elie will present a series of works that blend drawing, photography, installation, and video. Her work reflects her exploration of landscapes, revealing the layers of time and the fragility of the world.

As a visual artist, Juliette-Andréa Elie's work is a cross between photography and drawing, questioning the difficult representation of landscape in the anthropocene era.
Over the course of her series, she seeks to rediscover the primitive alliance between living things that has been broken, that tenuous sensation of fusion that, in contemplation, annihilates the distances between our bodies and the landscape. To achieve this, the artist traces grooves with drypoint to engrave the intimate in space, superimposes diaphanous prints until she finds the singular materiality of each photograph, or tattoos the photographic epidermis with wishes inspired by meteorologists' drawings. Juliette-Andréa Elie has a keen eye for the places that are disappearing, and brings us the anxiety of Icelandic glaciers (Fading Landscapes series), forests devastated by fire (Fire)(scapes) and the invisible pollution of the air in landscapes that are nonetheless unsuspected (Mysterious Mist).

For the Drawing Hotel, the exhibition will weave in and out of these series, as well as presenting previously unseen works conceived, among others, during a residency at the Musée Nicéphore Niepce in 2024. The drawing will become embroidery, sutures of silk threads and strands of hair on the edge of a photographic print. A body/landscape in search of repair.


Juliette-Andréa is a graduate of ESBANM (Nantes) and Concordia University (Montreal). Discovered in 2015 by the Circulation(s) Festival, she is one of the winners of the Mentorat des Filles de la Photo (2020/21), the Prix Pictet shortlist (2022) and the "Une autre empreinte" Dahinden & la Biennale Photo Climat prize (2023). Her work has been acquired by a number of public institutions, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 2023, historian Michel Poivert included her work in his book ‘La contre culture dans la photographie contemporaine’. Her work also features in the BNF catalogue ‘Épreuves de la Matière’, following the group exhibition of the same name.

In the heart of Paris, just a stone's throw from the Comédie Française, the Palais-Royal, the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, close to the Opéra and the Grands Magasins, the Drawing Hotel, a 4-star hotel in the Drawing Hotels Collection, invites you to enjoy its 48 rooms featuring contemporary design and furniture by French and international publishers and designers.
Conceived by Carine Tissot, director of the Drawing Now Art Fair and the Drawing Society, the contemporary art fair, the hotel was designed by the interior design duo NIDO. The hotel is home to Drawing Lab, the first space for the production and promotion of contemporary drawing. Located at 17, rue de Richelieu (Paris 1er), the corridors of the 5 floors have been taken over by artists Lek & Sowat, Abdelkader Benchamma, Clément Bagot, Françoise Pétrovitch, Thomas Broomé and Stéfane Perraud on the gable end of the building. 

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