Silvia Bächli
Baden, Switzerland, 1956
He exhibited at the Centro Botín Silvia Bächli: Score, 2024

Lyon, 2018-2020
10 gouaches on paper
Installation. Total dimensions 360 x 1020 cm.
Adquired in 2024

Since the late 1970s, Swiss artist Silvia Bächli has committed to drawing as a continuous practice that is deeply dependent on and entangled with her body and its movements, both within the domestic sphere and the landscape. Her drawings can be read as traces of sensorial records – a walk on a field, a body that aches, a poem that triggers – and corporeal gestures – the extension of the arm, the strength of the hand or the rhythm of the brushstroke.

Bächli insistently works with modest and limiting means: white paper of different sizes, qualities and tones marked with Indian ink, charcoal, gouache or pastels. Her process is sequential as the artist draws on sheets from a pile, one after another, arranging constellations of works on her studio wall that are consecutively interrogated, rearranged and rejected until she discovers something that feels right and surprising.