New York, NY, June 11, 2024 – Hudson Guild 441 W. 26th Street New York, New York 10001 

The Déflorée series is made of large wood cradled panels covered with painted drawings and flower petals. Valérie Hallier discovered that working with flower petals was ideal for conveying complex themes such as femininity, resilience, sexuality, vibrancy, and decay. The series recounts the different stages of the artist’s sexual life – some ecstatic, some traumatic – and mixes abstraction and symbolic/automatic drawings to recreate personal narratives around crucial moments where letting go of control was at stake. Various cultural references are part of the series, from Indian miniatures to early medieval paintings, showing stylized and symbolic characters among ornamental patterns without perspectival points.