Josiane Herman attended the drawing workshop at La « S » Grand Atelier between 2009 and 2014. Agoraphobic and often subject to anxiety attacks, she left the workshops to live alone, almost in seclusion, in an apartment supervised by the Hautes Ardennes institution in Vielsalm. She has not drawn since 2014. Josiane Herman depicted nuns and priests, saints but also actors and divas of the past, reproducing photocopied images in pastel or ballpoint pen. Some details remain recognizable—lips, pupils, teeth—but the rest transforms: undulations into hills, drapery into landscapes, teeth into staircases, ties into ice-cream sticks, skin into ghosts. These metamorphoses are what make her work compelling, opening a reflection on the body, the brain, and the imagination.
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