Agnès Thurnauer is a French-Swiss artist. A self-taught painter, Thurnauer graduated from the School of Decorative Arts (Paris) with a degree in Film-Video. Her work approaches the question of the pictorial language, and opens up a space where figuration and abstraction dialogue to give birth to new visions. Writing, matter and framing are all colors in her painter’s palette. Her recent sculptural work is a three-dimensional extension of this pictorial language : As in her paintings, the gaze moves among the shapes of letters, generating new readings every time. For Agnès Thurnauer, it’s not only the painting which makes the spectator, but also « the spectator who makes the painting ». Her work activates this living interface –this mutual reading– between art and the spectator.