Quel Rêve
Zoë Renait
1 - 8 Apr 2026
Spanning new and recent canvases, Quel Rêve offers a sustained look at a practice in confident, deliberate motion — scenes of leisure, intimacy, and quiet ceremony rendered in oil with an atmosphere that feels simultaneously immediate and remote, where figures move through softly charged environments and a gesture or glance carries the weight of something half-remembered. Renait, who studied psychology and presented research on mindfulness at Harvard, approaches painting as a practice rooted in perception and inner experience, her canvases less concerned with narrative than with atmosphere — objects becoming symbolic, spaces psychological, the boundary between the luxurious and the sacred consistently and deliberately blurred. Raised in the Midwest and now working from Long Beach, Renait has developed a visual language shaped by observation, escapism, and a deep attentiveness to the liminal; Quel Rêve is her first exhibition with ALLGORITHIM and Galerie.
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