
Natacha Donzé
valeurs refuge

Installation view valeurs refuge 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
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Installation view valeurs refuge 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Installation view valeurs refuge 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Installation view valeurs refuge 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Attrition surface, afterimage of growth, 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Death needs no proof, it consumes it all, 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Not built, but born, 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Spinalscraper I, 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Metabolism, the spell, 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Natacha Donzé, Attrition surface, love and labor 2025 | Courtesy of max goelitz, copyright the artist | Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
In the exhibition valeurs refuge, Natacha Donzé transforms the gallery into a painterly landscape shaped by sacred symbols and synthetic aesthetics. The space hovers in a state of ambivalence: tracing a line from intimacy to abstraction, from emotional charge to immaculate surface. Luminous, calm and subtly artificial, it lingers like a digital afterimage - a synthetic memory infused with ancient symbolism of love, decay and cycles of life.
At the center of the exhibition is the painting not built, but born - two skulls facing each other like lovers in a silent encounter. Their iconic presence suggests the existence of a portal, a connection beyond time, enveloped in a chromatic world of golds, acid yellows and sunset tones - a sacred and consumerist atmosphere. A series of canvases that refer to architectural facades and fragments of bodily gestures emerge in the exhibition: sweating structures, touched surfaces, bodies that have been worked on, worn out or invested in.
Donzé's practice brings together visual languages from corporate imagery, religious space, and biological systems. Through her signature use of airbrush and modular formats, she explores the tension between what is human-made and what is inherently human - between structures we build and the feelings that persist within them. The exhibition forms a cycle: love and death, capital and desire, bodies and buildings, all held in a fragile, glowing equilibrium.