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“Drawing is the medium through which I can best express myself,” says Anne Imhof. Practiced since childhood, it informs her performance works, which she conceives like a painter, structuring space and the movement of bodies according to the principles of composition, lines, and perspective.

In these five drawings, it is not so much the faces as the bodies—and in particular the oversized hands and fingers—that catch our attention. Through the play of light, shadow, and unfinished surfaces, Imhof brings forth spectral figures with suspended gestures, waiting to move. These fragile and disturbing silhouettes evoke slow and silent dances, foreshadowing the artist's intense and twilit choreographies. Stretched or contorted, these bodies recall Géricault's anatomical studies and showcase Imhof's constant tension between life and death.

These works are held by the Pinault Collection and were presented for the first time at the "Corps et âmes" exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in 2025.