Exhibition “Marie-Christine Roy-Manifeste to existence, from the field line to the swan song”

Marie-Christine Roy (born in 1950 in Tours) arrived in 1975 in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. Close to André Breton's last companion, Élisa Breton (née Bindhoff-Enet), the two became friends until the latter's death in 2000. Marie-Christine, who arrived by chance from Paris, quickly became involved in the young generation of artists, admirers of the surrealists. Everyone comes to draw inspiration and the dream of an alternative life from the Lot. Initially academic and oriented towards
impressionism or romanticism, Marie-Christine's influences reached a turning point when she experimented with psychic automatism and simultaneously discovered the works of Francis Picabia, Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer.

The artist never exhibited her work alone, and the rare occasions that led her to show it led her to move away from the spotlight, preferring to draw light elsewhere, from her readings and meetings. “Itinerary of a dragonfly”, as she likes to call it, is a sensitivity in a “raw” state, or, to borrow the words of André Breton, “an eye that exists in the wild” . It goes without saying that this revelation could only have taken place at the Maison André Breton, in this house-poem full of ode to singularity, and where the radicality of the proposals must find place in the spirit
surrealist.