The exhibition brings together Jean-Michel Comte, Agnès Bourély, and Ambroise Bellec, three contemporary artists for whom drawing functions as an autonomous language and a space of mental construction.

For each of them, drawing is neither preparatory nor illustrative. It becomes a field of research in which gesture organizes thought and abstraction unfolds over time.

Jean-Michel Comte’s work is developed using black ink pen, through a precise and continuous graphic writing. The line, sharp and assertive, is governed by an almost obsessive rigor. Through the accumulation and repetition of gesture, the drawing builds a visual density that evokes mental structures constructed line by line, in a close relationship between control and persistence.

By contrast, Ambroise Bellec’s work is developed in graphite, a more unstable and sensitive material. The drawing takes shape through successive layers. The line is repeated, thickened, and superimposed until it generates an almost organic structure. This gradual construction makes the passage of time visible and gives rise to forms emerging from a constant dialogue between intuition and analysis, where repetition becomes a tool of psychological tension.

In counterpoint, Agnès Bourély introduces colour as an active energy. Her works shift perception and complicate abstraction through chromatic vibrations and sensitive superimpositions. Colour does not oppose the rigour of drawing; it expands its scope and opens new lines of reading.

Lines of Thought thus unfolds as a dialogue between different approaches to drawing rigorous, accumulative, or chromatic revealing drawing as a space of mental projection, where each line becomes the trace of an inner process.