Dawn of time

The Dawn of Time is a solo exhibition by French artist Johanna Baudou. Through painting and ceramics, Baudou explores the emergence of light, colour, and perception, creating spaces suspended between abstraction and memory. Born in London in 1984, she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, and the New York Studio School, and is now based in Brussels. The Dawn of Time is a solo exhibition by Johanna Baudou bringing together a new body of paintings and ceramic works that explore the emergence of light, colour, and perception. The exhibition evokes something both cosmic and intimate: a search for the very first moment of becoming, before form fully appears, where everything remains suspended between darkness and light, presence and disappearance. Inspired by the poem of the same title, Baudou approaches the floral motif not as a symbolic subject, but as a space of perception, transformation, and embodiment. Her paintings dissolve the familiar image of the flower into luminous and transitory fields where colour, surface, and temporality converge. Through scale and atmosphere, the works open onto unknown territories where perception becomes unstable and the boundaries between abstraction and representation begin to blur. This exploration extends into ceramics, where matter leaves the surface to take physical form. The sculptures emerge as fragments of landscape or organic presences, carrying within them a tactile memory and a sense of continual transformation. Occupying an in-between space between the visible and the invisible, the ephemeral and the enduring, The Dawn of Time invites viewers to contemplate the birth of colour and the mystery of perception itself. Rather than depicting an origin, the exhibition evokes the experience of approaching one. Johanna Baudou is a French artist born in London in 1984. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, drawing, poetry, ceramics, and installation. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins in London, and at the New York Studio School. Before settling in Brussels, her work was exhibited internationally, notably in London, Japan, France and Brazil.