RYTHMANALYSE

GWLADYS BERNARD

"SEEING THE SMALL TO REVEAL THE VAST"

RYTHMANALYSE | GWLADYS BERNARD | DU 10.04 AU 30.09.2025

I hear forms. They whisper, vibrate, sing a language I’ve learned to listen to. At first overwhelming, I’ve gradually learned to tame them. Today, they accompany me, inspire me, and dance through my mind like notes on a score.

This music often reveals itself in the raw geometry of the city — rows of high-rises, aligned windows, housing blocks rising toward the sky. Instinctively, my eye flattens them. These towers transform into two-dimensional compositions, into patterns I can almost touch. I’ve learned to observe these places, to deconstruct them, and reimagine them.

With patience and obsession, I engage in a silent dialogue — with their architectural rhythms and the breath of those who inhabit them: lives, dreams, ordinary or extraordinary realities.

One day, I began to question these windows, to imagine the  worlds they might contain.

What happens behind them? Is a family dining under a warm light? Are ideas taking shape in a late-night meeting? Could a field of poppies bloom in this enclosed space?

So many questions turned my eye inward, toward my own windows.

What might mine hold?

In my work, they become portals of emotion and rhythm. I compose them like a melody: layers of lines, intervals, tension and release. The façades disappear, the structures vibrate within an intimate world where the visible enters into dialogue with the invisible.

RYTHMANALYSES

Inspired by the work of theorist Henri Lefebvre, this series explores the analysis of rhythms — rhythmanalysis. To perceive and analyse a rhythm, one must be open, willing to let go, to give oneself over and surrender to its duration. As an observer of rhythms, I engage all my senses in order to listen to them, to feel them and to connect them.

My Rhythmanalyses are sensitive compositions that translate the energy and emotions awakened in me by urban structures and the life unfolding within them. My own body becomes a measuring instrument — like a metronome, it sets the tempo. Each line, each repetition, each pause emerges from the rhythm of my breath, the beating of my heart, the vibrations I experience while drawing, linking the tangible exterior world with the intangible realm of my inner perceptions.

My works are windows onto the world and onto myself, scores in which the harmony of structures and the pulsations of the imagination unfold. In this way, each building, each window, each city becomes an invitation to listen to the rhythm of the world and to overlay it with the pulse of our own emotions. My drawings seek to set lines in motion until they reveal the intimate music of the spaces we inhabit.

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