Short biography

Christine Enrègle, visual artist, lives and works between Paris and Lisbon.
She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2008 and is Professor of Visual Arts at the École supérieure d’arts appliqués, Condé-Paris.
Since 2017, she has made regular artistic residencies in France and abroad, particularly in Lisbon where she presents her drawings in solo exhibitions: at the National Society of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Natural History. She also participates in solo and group exhibitions in France, Brazil, China and South Korea.

She is interested in the metamorphosis of plants and, in particular, the growth of the tree whose organic character she emphasizes: her charcoal drawings on cotton canvas are experienced as the result (the «precipitate») of an encounter between the plant and the human. They question the place given to plants in our Western societies and the mode of relationship we have with them.
After working in the various gardens of Lisbon from the Ficus macrophylla met for the first time in Brazil in 2003, she turns to the figure of the olive tree that crosses the centuries, cultures and religions in Europe and the Middle East.