Baba Limousin

Lives and works in Paris

Restorer of works of art from the FAR EAST, and specialist in old Japanese screens. She creates contemporary paintings and screens, integrating old Japanese calligraphy papers recovered from the quilts, the backgrounds are painted with pigments sometimes enhanced with gold or silver leaf. Contemporary screens with figurative or abstract decorations are assembled using traditional techniques.

"Baba Limousin takes our gaze from behind the scenes, that of XNUMXth century Japanese screens. She surrounds it with abstract shapes, a new abstraction, brown gold of shadow and light, sometimes blue or blue. a touch of red. The reverse has become again the place as at its origin, a track of paper on which the traces of brushes dipped in ink from the East mixed with that of the West dance. "