Galerie B-312 is pleased to present États, an exhibition that brings together En un seul exemplaire by Luce Meunier, Les aisances by Daniel Langevin and Orphelines by Sylvain Breton. In addition to being pictorial, the three proposals have another point in common: the motif is the sensitive point of the works. -How can one still subscribe to the motif of tracing, to that of the form, to the icon, without being assimilated to the multiple returns to figuration that followed the turning point of abstraction? Are states of painting, states of painting, states in painting possible on the margins of modernist interpretation, without necessarily falling into the post-modern question? It seems so. -Luce Meunier presents square paintings on which the coloured matter seems to have been subjected to something other than a gesture. The works seem to bear witness to a strictly pictorial event that the artist obtained by controlling only her conditions of possibility. Drawing in the material in this way leads the viewer to pay particular attention to the plasticity of acrylic beyond its function as a binder, so that the motif no longer lies only within the limits of the plane of the painting, but just as much within the thickness of the paint deposit.