Rendez-vous: a mirror
AUÉRELIE SALAVERT
AURÉLIE SALAVERT
Rendez-vous: a mirror
APRIL 23 - MAY 28, 2026
There is a house over there,
And here, my own.
There is a deep dark hole over there,
Over there a silence,
A silence…
I walked through the streets of my city,
It was springtime,
A woman's home: a tent on a patch of grass.
A child's home: a piece of cardboard.
I returned to the house that is, I was told, my own.
I made a drawing,
A poem in images,
An image in prayer.
I saw over there the house,
I saw over there the garden blooming once more.
MPM Gallery is pleased to present a selection of drawings by the French artist Aurélie Salavert in her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Aurélie describes her practice as a means of recording chance encounters with her own imaginings: “A thing appears in the mind, then disappears, like clouds in the sky…” The exhibition’s title, Rendez-vous: A Mirror, suggests such an encounter—an invitation to convene with the artist’s own fleeting apparitions, translating them into physical form through painting, drawing, and mixed media. As with all of Aurélie Salavert’s delicate compositions, this latest grouping defies simple categorization, shifting fluidly between tenderness, darkness, humor, sexuality, and mysticism. Aurélie intentionally eschews dates, allowing her dreamlike liaisons to exist in a perpetual present, serving as a looking glass through which to view her inner world.
Aurélie Salavert
Origin, return (Origine, retour), ND
gouache and pencil on cardboard
7⅞ x 8⅝ in.
20 x 22 cm
Aurélie Salavert
The Spirit of adventure (L’esprit d’aventure), ND
gouache and pencil on cardboard
7⅞ x 7⅞ in.
20 x 20 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Short walk in a safe place? (Petite balade en lieu sûr ?), ND
pencil and pastel on paperboard
9½ x 7⅛ in.
24 x 18 cm
Aurélie Salavert
One Day forever ❤️ Best Wishes Little darlings! (Un Jour pour Toujours ❤️ Meilleurs Vœux petits chéris !), ND
gouache and pencil on cardboard
9⅞ x 7⅞ in.
25 x 20 cm
Aurélie Salavert
All the lights (Toutes les lumières), ND
gouache, pastel and pencil on paperboard
11 x 7⅞ in.
28 x 20 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Return to the nice house (Retourner dans la gentle maison), ND
watercolor and pencil on found paperboard
7½ x 11 in.
19 x 28 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Sky world (Monde du ciel), ND
pen on paper
9⅞ x 9⅞ in.
25 x 25 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Invariably forward under the sign of Capricorn, ND
pastel and pencil on paper
7½ x 9½ in.
19 x 24 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Never be sad again -New gymnastics class with my pet.
(Ne soyez plus jamais triste -Nouveau cours de gymnastique avec mon animal domestique), ND
pastel, gouache and pencil on paper
7½ x 10⅝ in. | 19 x 27 cm
Aurélie Salavert
A drawing for tenderness (Un dessin pour la tendresse), ND
pastel and pencil on paper
8¼ x 11⅜ in.
21 x 29 cm
Aurélie Salavert
A day like any other (Un jour comme un autre), ND
pencil and pastel on paper
6¾ x 7⅛ in.
17 x 18 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Out of frame (Hors cadre), ND
gouache and pencil on paperboard
11 x 7⅞ in.
28 x 20 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Navigation in international waters (Navigation en eaux internationales), ND
Pen on cardboard
9½ x 12¼ in.
24x31 cm.
Aurélie Salavert
Somewhere (Quelque part), ND
gouache and pencil on paper
8¼ x 11⅜ in.
21 x 29 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Our bodies (Nos corps), ND
gouache, pencil and pastel on paper
8¼ x 11⅜ in.
21 x 29 cm
“Most of my drawings appear in my mind in moments of solitude, often when I am in the silence of my room. I do not request this state. It happens naturally, a vision.”
- Aurélie Salavert
Aurélie Salavert
Where are your dreams?(Où sont vos rêves ?), ND
pencil and pastel on paper
8¼ x 11¾ in.
21 x 30 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Biennial (Biennale), ND
watercolor and pencil on paper
10¼ x 8¼ in.
26 x 21 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Invasion, ND
pencil and gouache on paper
7⅛ x 9½ in.
18 x 24 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Our bodies, our voices. (Nos corps, nos voix), ND
pen on paperboard
7⅞ x 7⅞ in.
20 x 20 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Crush (Béguin), ND
pencil and pastel on found paper
10¼ x 8⅝ in.
26 x 22 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Some animals (Quelques animaux), ND
gouache and pencil on paper
7⅞ x 11 in.
20 x 28 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Intimate theater (Théâtre intime), ND
pencil and lipstick on paper
13⅜ x 16½ in.
34 x 42 cm
Aurélie Salavert
What would I be without you ? (Que serais-je sans toi ?)
pencil, gouache, pastel on found paper
9⅞ x 13 in.
25 x 33 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Small things and big secrets (Petites choses et grands secrets), ND
gouache and pencil on paper
8¼ x 10⅝ in.
21 x 27 cm
Aurélie Salavert
The miracle of Love (Le miracle de l’Amour), ND
gouache on paper
7½ x 10⅝ in.
19 x 27 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Easy geometry. One inside the other. (Géométrie facile. L’un dans l’autre.), ND
gouache on paper
7⅞ x 9⅞ in.
20 x 25 cm
Aurélie Salavert
First step (Premier pas), ND
pencil and gouache on paper
6¾ x 7½ in.
17 x 19 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Rue Robert Desnos, ND
pen, pencil and pastel on paperboard
9⅞ x 7⅛ in.
25 x 18 cm
Aurélie Salavert
A tender gift (Tendre présent), ND
pencil on paperboard
9½ x 12¼ in.
24 x 31 cm
Aurélie Salavert
December in Saturn (Décembre en Saturne), ND
gouache and pencil on cardboard
11¾ x 11¾ in.
30 x 30 cm
Aurélie Salavert
Fables and metamorphoses Step 1 - how to become a bird. (Fables et métamorphoses Étape 1 - comment devenir un oiseau.), ND
pencil on paper
8¼ x 10¼ in.
21 x 26 cm
