Collaborating Lines

Xavier Veilhan interviewed by Dorothée King

On a summer day in 2022 I visited the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. I was drawn into and intrigued by the diverse simplicity and the all-embracing beauty of the colorful lines of Xavier Veilhan’s A3-sized ink on paper lockdown drawings, shown in his solo exhibition The Lockdown Drawings. So far, I only knew about Xavier’s colorful, bold and volumetric installations. I wanted to learn more about Xavier’s thought processes about the 2-dimensional space and his interest in lines, which seemed to leave the rigid formats of the paper to start collaborations on their own…

King, Dorothée: Collaborating Lines, Interview with Xavier Veilhan, the Nomadic Journal, February 27th, 2023, an edition by Doppelhouse Press, LA, https://thenomadicjournal.com/2023/02/27/collaborating-lines/