Immanence

7 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris 31 January - 31 March 2019 
Overview
7 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris Vernissage 31 Jan - 18h - 21h
Immanence explores form as a process rather than a fixed result. Across painting and sculpture, the exhibition brings together the works of Lala Drona, Anja Rausch, and Leo Orta, whose practices investigate how meaning, sensation, and form emerge from within material, bodily, and perceptual experience.
Rooted in the philosophical idea of immanence, the exhibition proposes that form does not exist independently or in advance, but arises through contact: with the body, the psyche, matter, and the viewer. Here, artworks remain in a state of becoming, shaped by accumulation, intuition, vulnerability, and transformation rather than resolved into stable images or objects.
Lala Drona approaches painting as a living, bodily field shaped by gesture, memory, and lived experience, particularly drawing from reconstructive surgeries and their physical and emotional traces. Anja Rausch’s intuitive painting practice unfolds through gradual perception, allowing forms to surface between figuration and abstraction, evoking shifting scales from the microscopic to the cosmic. Leo Orta’s sculptural works combine industrial processes, organic forms, and psychoanalytic inquiry, creating objects that oscillate between function and metaphor, familiarity and emotional exposure.
Together, the artists articulate a shared interest in fragility, incompleteness, and transformation as productive states. Immanence positions the exhibition space as a site of encounter, where personal experience, material processes, and perception intersect -inviting viewers to engage with form not as something to decode, but as something to experience in motion.
Press release
Vernissage 31 Jan - 18h - 21h, 7 rue de Thorigny, 75003, Paris 
 
The form does not exist by itself - it arises in contact: with the body, with the psyche, with the material and with the viewer.
 
Immanence is the idea that meaning, form, and experience do not come from outside, but arise within the very process of body or matter. Across painting and sculpture, three contemporary artists Lala Drona, Anja Rausch and Leo Orta trace porous thresholds between body and matter, image and experience, function and metaphor. Here, form does not precede its making, nor does it resolve into a fixed state. Instead, it manifests as a continuous negotiation between forces, surfaces, and perceptions. Immanence positions the exhibition space as a site where artists invite the public to observe personal experience. 
Lala Drona treats painting as a dynamic field of forces in which form and meaning arise from within the act of making itself. She does not begin the work with a fixed image but allows gestures, material, and bodily experience to shape the work over time. As she says, “My paintings have always felt like bodies… each action changes the body, and over time the painting starts to wake up, shaped by accumulation and loss.” Drawing directly from her experience of reconstructive breast surgeries, which she filmed and repeatedly studied in her studio, she translates this experience to the canvas, working first on the floor and later vertically on the wall, resulting in images that never fully settle and remain in a constant state of becoming.
On the other hand, Anja Rausch’s practice is rooted in immanence, where meaning emerges from the process of perception rather than being imposed in advance. Her works develop intuitively and gradually through an additive painting method, allowing forms to arise from within the act of painting itself. Working between figuration and abstraction, her images shift in scale and reference, evoking both microscopic and cosmic structures without settling into fixed interpretations. In this way, her paintings position perception as an immanent process - one that unfolds through attention, accumulation, and relational seeing.
Leo Orta’s sculptural objects articulate a tension between the familiar and the untethered, combining industrial processes, organic forms, and psychoanalytic inquiry. Each sculpture becomes a site for reflection on human vulnerability and the ongoing search for meaning, where functional and metaphorical elements intertwine and evolve,  resisting singular interpretation and inviting a more intimate, sensitive, and deeply emotional experience.
In this context, the works of three artists together share an interest in form as a process rather than a result. Their practices intersect in exploration of the body and material, image and sensation, function and metaphor. Instead of fixed meanings, they propose a state of becoming in which form is experienced, assembled, and redefined. The exhibition becomes a space where fragility and incompleteness act not as a deficit, but as a condition for the emergence of a new experience.