Alongside exploring vaporous forms in drawing and the slow crafting of plaster objects, Maintes reprises represents for Manon Cezaro a return to drawing in a more intuitive and spontaneous form, exploring a singular interpretation of objects and living beings through pattern.

This new linework reveals a particular affinity for gesture in craft art, where drawing becomes a means to reinterpret ancestral gestures originally conceived for carved wood, blown glass, or forged metal.

A large visual lexicon comes to life, structured by a recurring and systematic format, while the use of five colors unifies all the forms, placing them on the same expressive plane. The whole collection stages different elements: a lobster alongside a hookah, a Norman cabinet conversing with a tiered cake, while fruit bowls invaded by ants meet portraits adorned with mysterious headdresses.

Following the recent release of her book Terrain glissant with Fidèle édition, in which all the originals were drawn then erased, Maintes reprises proposes a new way to present these collections of ephemeral drawings. It is through an installation, all framed in red and under a thin layer of varnish ready to crack, that these works come to dialogue for the duration of the exhibition.