ON AIME TROP DE CHOSES DIFFÉRENTES: FLORA MOSCOVICI | JULIETTE ROCHE

From February 5 to 28, 2026, Pavec presents an exhibition bringing together Juliette Roche (1884–1980) and Flora Moscovici (1985–), two artists from different generations placed in dialogue around color and light, regarded as active elements in the construction of space.

Juliette Roche’s still lifes and bouquets, produced between the 1920s and 1940s, are characterized by a rigorous organization of color: simple, everyday forms become vibrant surfaces in which light is absorbed, reflected, and redistributed through thick and atypical brushstrokes. Color structures the composition as much as it determines its rhythm, in the spirit of Cubism.

Opposite, a work, a “relic”, by Flora Moscovici, created on tiles at the Museo Sant’Orsola in Florence in 2025, engages color as pure matter applied to an architectural support. The tile, an ordinary and modular element, imposes a fragmentation that allows light to circulate from one surface to another, transforming color into a physical and spatial experience. Similarly, the Revêtements, paintings created for the Cité Polychrome project in 2021 and later cut up and reworked in 2022, extend this fragmentary logic, making the cutting of the support an active principle of perception.

In both practices, the domestic space is neither a narrative motif nor a decorative backdrop, but rather a place for formal experimentation, where gestures, materials, and everyday usage are shifted toward a heightened attention to visual phenomena, contributing to the development of a phenomenological experience.

Finally, a discreet link unites the two artists: Moly-Sabata, the artist residency founded by Juliette Roche and Albert Gleizes in 1927, where Flora Moscovici stayed in turn in 2020, like a silent passing of the torch. From this stay comes Peau, a work in tempera on parchment, whose fine, vibrant surface captures light in a diffuse manner, turning color no longer into a volume or a module, but into an almost organic presence, sensitive to variations in the viewer’s gaze.