YMANE CHABI-GARA – EVEN E.T. SCARED ME
2026-07-13The highest level of anxiety sums up the feelings Ymane ChabiGara expresses in her paintings. Obsessively she represents enduring modes of confinement, whether voluntary or not. For her first paintings, she immersed herself in the world of hikikomori, those young Japanese people who live in their rooms, completely withdrawn from society. Their daily life is beset by various forms of social anxiety, filled with digital hyper-connection and haunted by fear of failure. Some time after, her practice opened to lighter images of landscapes prompting her pictorial technique to evolve.
In a new way in her practice, she began working in wash drawing in extremely structured compositions involving the use of Sellotape. Later on, the darkness of the contemporary world and of the human spirit resurfaced in her painting. In this exhibition, she confronts herself with another confinement, that of the family circle.
Opposite – One day painting 50, 2025
Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2026
Mennour
5, rue du Pont de Lodi
75006 Paris
France
