Espace Claire-Léger presents
Isabelle Lambert – Passages

Members' Exhibition

From May 28 to June 28, 2026

Opening Sunday, May 31 at 2:00 p.m.

Isabelle Lambert

Passages

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This series emerges from an intimate meditation on grief and its invisible traces. It lingers on what remains, what takes root, and what gently transforms our relationship to the world.

Here, grief is not a passage to be crossed, but a movement that inhabits the living. It settles in silence, persists, and alters the light of perception. At times endured, at times gradually tamed, it becomes an inner presence—subtle yet enduring.

The roots, omnipresent, carry this passage. They evoke the anchoring of emotions in the materiality of the living world, while whispering the bond to the earth and to the cycle to which everything returns. They speak both of wound and continuity.

Presences emerge, fragile, traversed by forces that permeate them and seek a point of balance. They hint at passages—from loss toward a possible form of gentleness, an intimate reconciliation that remains uncertain.

In this approach, drawing becomes a space of silence and attentiveness. Graphite, charcoal, ink, and pastel lay down sensitive traces, as so many attempts to approach the invisible—with restraint, with delicacy.

Biography

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Isabelle Lambert is a figurative artist originally from Beauce (Quebec), trained in visual arts at Université Concordia (Montréal). After a long hiatus linked to personal upheavals, she returned to artistic creation more than twenty years later. Since then, her practice has been rooted in an intimate exploration of the living world, where drawing and painting become spaces of listening, transformation, and presence.

https://www.isabellelambert2d.com/

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