PHILIPPINE D'OTREPPE

EDJI Gallery is pleased to present its summer show : Coco Samba, a solo exhibition of new works by painter & ceramist Philippine d'Otreppe, on view in Brussels until July 18th.

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Belgian artist Philippine d'Otreppe works across painting, drawing, and ceramics, building her compositions from observations gathered in daily life. Her practice often begins with quick sketches, photographs, notes, or anecdotes collected while moving through a place, fragments that later reappear in the studio as paintings and objects.

This exhibition brings together a new body of work developed following a six-week residency at Casa Voa in Rio de Janeiro in 2025. During her stay, d'Otreppe filled notebooks with scenes drawn from the city and its surroundings: beaches, markets, tropical vegetation, street life, and chance encounters. The works assemble these observations into compositions that reflect the rhythms and atmosphere of everyday life in Rio.

Humour and spontaneity play an important role in d'Otreppe's approach. Familiar objects, plants, animals, and figures are often shifted slightly away from reality, creating images that move freely between observation and imagination. The resulting paintings do not seek to describe a place faithfully, but to capture the experience of looking, collecting, and remembering.

Alongside the paintings, a group of ceramic works extends the exhibition into three dimensions. Developed in dialogue with the canvases, they bring recurring motifs from the paintings into the gallery space and highlight the fluid movement between image and object that characterises d'Otreppe's practice.

On the lower floor of the gallery, the artist presents an installation of scanned sketchbook pages, photographs, notes, and collected references, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the visual references and ideas that shaped the exhibition.

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