METAPHORE: SOLO SHOW BY MYRIAM DE LAFFOREST,
Paris, 5-18 Dec 2025
Clémentine de Forton Gallery and Xavier Hochet Present
📍 PAL PROJECT, 39 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
Monday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
🔗 👉 Communiqué de Presse (French)
“METAPHORE” – MYRIAM DE LAFFOREST SOLO ART EXHIBITION (DEC 5-18)
Curated by Clémentine de Forton and Xavier Hochet
For this unprecedented exhibition in Paris, Myriam de Lafforest celebrates twenty-five years of creation and unveils for the first time her pictorial work alongside her emblematic sculptures.
Entitled MÉTAPHORE, this exhibition marks a pivotal moment in the artist’s journey: a dialogue between earth and canvas, between matter and color, between incarnation and dream.
Renowned for her figurative bronze sculptures, imbued with both sensual and spiritual intensity, Myriam de Lafforest now extends this language into painting — which she approaches as a surreal and symbolic writing, born from the depths of dream and the unconscious.
Her works weave a bridge between the visible and the invisible, between experience and being, in a continuity where life takes form alternately in earth and in color.
In this spirit, Clémentine de Forton Gallery, representing the artist, and Xavier Hochet, senior advisor and collector, present together MÉTAPHORE at PAL Project, in the heart of Paris’s 7th arrondissement, from December 5 to 18, 2025.
An exhibition that celebrates the return to an embodied sculpture, to a painting of the soul.
Metaphor of a mirrored gaze? Metaphor of a dreamlike and symbolic language?
The gaze runs through all of Myriam de Lafforest’s work.
It is never decorative: it questions, pierces, reveals.
In her sculptures as in her paintings, it acts as a metaphor for an inner mirror and becomes the guiding thread of a body of work that probes consciousness — not that of the intellect, but of the living, the breath.
Her figures seem to come from elsewhere: they look at us as much as we look at them.
Something within us is seen, grasped, touched.
In Myriam’s universe, sculpture and painting extend one another.
Her sculptures are born from a block of clay, slowly, until the face, the movement, the woman, the pair, or the child emerge from the silence of matter to reach the third dimension.
This verticality of body and soul finds its echo in painting.
The canvas becomes a space of interiority — a metaphorical writing of the unconscious, of dream, and of symbols.
Forms intertwine like fragments of reverie, revealing what lies beneath.
Myriam de Lafforest stands within a humanist and existential lineage, where matter becomes a passage between body and spirit.
Her work does not denounce — it elevates, opens, connects.
In this sense, MÉTAPHORE is not merely an exhibition, but an experience:
a journey where sculpture and painting, matter and dream, respond to one another in a shared movement of consciousness.
📌 Practical Information:
- Title:“Métaphore: Peintures et Sculptures.”
- Artists: MYRIAM DE LAFFOREST
- Location: 39 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
- Dates: DEC 4-18, 2025
- Opening Hours:
- MON-SAT, 12:00 to 19:00
- Vernissage: DEC 4, 18h-21h
- LIVE PERFORMANCE with Myriam de Lafforest: Saturday DEC 6, 16h-19h
- Organised by : Clémentine de Forton Gallery & Xavier Hochet
- Website: www.clementinedefortongallery.com
- Social Media: @ClementinedefortonGallery
For any additional information, interviews with the artist, or visual material, please contact: Clémentine de Forton, clementinedeforton@gmail.com, +34 622499918 /+33 781521961
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