Presented by Galerie Aline Vidal, the exhibition écritures brings to Paris a selection of text-based works by Dutch artist Herman de vries, on view at Association Noemi – Espace Brownstone. Known for his philosophical and nature-driven approach, de vries explores the visual and experiential power of language through minimalist compositions that dissolve hierarchy—symbolized by his longstanding refusal to use capital letters.

The exhibition highlights his transformation of language into image. From reconfiguring philosophical texts by Bakunin and Wittgenstein, to turning plant names or river names into landscapes, de vries invites us to read the world, not through analysis, but through presence. His large-scale word drawings—like joy, repeated tens of thousands of times in colored pencil—become meditative mantras. For de vries, writing becomes a visual philosophy and a contemplative act.