Expo de Nathalie Almeras - Espace MJC / CREA

Faces, gazes, and a question that recurs from canvas to canvas. Nathalie Almeras is presenting her paintings at the MJC/CREA exhibition space in Millau, from Saturday, November 7, through Saturday, November 28, 2026. The collection is brought together under an intriguing title: “She Descends from the Ape.”

From the Ape to Woman, Then to Childhood

The artist bases her approach on a quote by Paul Klee: “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.” %BB For her, drawing comes before understanding. It is by sketching out the forms that the subject reveals itself, she explains, and only then does she come to understand it.

The thread running through the exhibition is this element of surprise. “I thought I was drawing monkeys. Then I thought I was drawing women. And in the end, I was drawing myself without even knowing it,” says Nathalie Almeras. At what point does the monkey become a woman, does the woman become “myself,” and does “myself” become the child I once was? The paintings leave the question open.

For the painter, the true subject is perhaps neither the monkey nor the woman, but “the gradual transformation of the way I see myself,” a journey she says she did not anticipate.