French draughtswoman, born in 1964.
The work
Isabelle Jarousse draws in Indian ink on paper she makes herself, from pure rag pulp. The Centre Pompidou holds several of her works, which entered the collection in 2010 with Daniel Cordier’s donation and are on deposit at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, including a Sans titre dated 31 May 2005 (Indian ink on pure rag paper pulp, 14 x 14 x 2 cm).
She describes her work as follows:
“My drawings are made up of animals, plants, human beings, but also abstract forms such as strokes, dots and curves, a graphic alphabet that evolves over time. I make the paper on which I draw meticulously, slowly, with a brush full of black ink. On this white matter, a knotted, hollow or flat matrix, I inscribe my writing, I structure my language, I obey creation. Immaculate white, slightly glossy, wet folds, voluptuous matter. To exist for an instant, in the desire to be reborn, to live despite the ‘failures’. New drawings cover the older ones; several layers are thus added to the original support, palimpsests of a writing repressed, rejected, corrected, worked to saturation.” (Isabelle Jarousse)