The Château de l’Étang opens its doors this Thursday evening for the opening of Larissa Noury’s exhibition. Painter, architect, and art history researcher, she has been exploring this simple yet infinite question for years: what does color do with us?

Her approach is twofold — she paints as much as she theorizes. The result: canvases that are not just meant to be seen. Larissa Noury speaks of “tactile colors,” and the term fits well with what she offers. Her surfaces breathe, vibrate, almost palpable. Sometimes it feels as if the light is still moving, that the material continues to work before our eyes.

Her work navigates between abstraction and reality. Some paintings evoke landscapes bathed in light, others pure color architectures, and still others flows of energy where form unravels. What matters is the experience: entering the canvas, letting color find its way.

What particularly distinguishes her journey are these “living paintings” where the paint spills out of the frame. Color invades space, the body, the stage. Performance, costume, staging: the work becomes a meeting, a presence, an exchange.

Sometimes one thinks of Impressionism, sometimes of lyrical abstraction, but Noury holds her own voice. For her, color speaks — emotion, memory, raw sensation. Each canvas becomes an inner landscape, a composition where intuition and reflection meet.