Serie of drawings, graphit on paper, 29,7 x 42 cm

Deriving from the rhetoric of Ancient Greece, ekphrasis refers to the verbal description of an artwork. Here, it is a series of descriptions taken from catalogues of paintings: indexes and archives of collections of works from museums and auction houses.
This descriptive style of archiving and reproduction, prior to photography, is then enlarged and meticulously traced in graphite to take on the dimension of an exposed image. Manual reproductions sustained over 20 hours for each drawing.