ROSENBERG & CO. 19 EAST 66TH STREET NEW YORK NY 10065
4 MARCH - 25 APRIL 2026
In Shadow and in Light is a collaborative exhibition by Eleanor Lakelin and multidisciplinary French artist Aude Herlédan presented by Rosenberg & Co. New York. The exhibition explores the artists’ shared visual language and their mutual exploration of memory, material, and time - bringing together 38 works created over the past six years, alongside four new works developed through a sustained dialogue between the two artists.
Vis Vitae – Latin for "the force of life" – serves as the exhibition’s unifying theme, reflecting Lakelin’s and Herlédan’s interest in the energies that shape both the natural world and human experience. Through the interplay of sculptural form and gestural painting, both artists root their practices in lived experience, material histories, and the persistence of memory.
Lakelin’s wood sculptures, often carved from burrs – natural formations that mark a tree's endurance through trauma – embody cycles of decay, resilience, and renewal. In contrast, Herlédan’s abstract paintings capture movement and transformation through dynamic brushstrokes and thick layered textures. While Herlédan's paintings evoke motion, Lakelin's sculptures offer moments of stillness.
Since autumn last year, the artists have engaged in an extended creative exchange, meeting virtually and traveling to one another’s studios to immerse themselves in each other’s processes. As a result, at the heart of the exhibition are four monumental works that emerged directly from this exchange: two by each artist, with one from each devoted to light and the other to shadow. Seen together, the works invite viewers to consider how the two visual languages engage and resist one another through a common motivation.
Following the exhibition at Rosenberg & Co. in New York, a second part of the exhibition will open at 1831 Gallery in Paris in May 2026.
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