Roots & Routes: Tracings of Time
Exhibition Title: Roots & Routes: Tracing of times
Artists: Camille de Galbert, Roxane Revon, Caroline Voagen Nelson
Curator: Aurore Vullierme
Location: PS122 Gallery, 150 1st Ave., New York, NY 10009
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 2025, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Dates: June 07 – 29, 2025, Thursday – Sunday 1:00 – 6 pm. Other days by appointment.
Media Contacts
Kaleb Wise – Manager PS122 Gallery – director@ps122gallery.org
Aurore Vullierme – Curator – aurore@aurore-vullierme.com
Curated by Aurore Vullierme, Roots and Routes: Tracings of Time opens in New York Gallery PS122 presenting powerful works by Camille de Galbert, Roxane Revon & Caroline Voagen Nelson
“Roots and Routes, Tracings of Time” is a poetic group exhibition exploring memory, transformation, and the invisible threads connecting us to the earth. Presented at PS122 Gallery the show is curated by Aurore Vullierme and brings together the powerful works of Camille de Galbert, Roxane Revon and Caroline Voagen Nelson. Through sculpture, installation, video and drawing, the artists trace the entanglement of organic systems, ancestral memory, and bodily time. From mycelial networks and eroded wax forms to myth-infused textiles and vessels, Roots and Routes invites viewers to reflect on the layered paths we inherit, traverse, and leave behind.
Roots & Routes: Tracings of Time
Talking about women in her essay «The Laugh of the Medusa », poet and philosopher Hélène Cixous, defying genre and convention, wrote: “We are ourselves sea, sand, coral… more or less wavily sea, earth, sky… We know how to speak them all.”
This reflection on the fluidity of being resonates deeply with Roots and Routes, Tracings of Time, an exhibition that explores how all living beings are interwoven with the earth’s cycles, shaped by vi sible and invisible forces, by the marks left by time, the roots anchoring us in the past, and the routes taken toward transformation.
The exhibition examines the idea that we are “more than ourselves”—our roots reaching far beyond individual experience, deep into the layers of history, nature, and the shared journeys shaping our collective existence. Like the sea and its tides, we are part of an endless process of creation and re-creation, leaving prints and imprints in the sand as we move through time.
Roots and Routes, Tracings of Time features the works of Camille de Galbert, Roxane Revon and Caroline Voagen Nelson, each reflecting on the intersection of growth, memory, and time. Here, the notion of roots, extending beyond the botanical, suggests deep connections to place and identity, like scar tissue or prints left in the soil. Routes, meanwhile, represent movement, change—the paths taken, the landscapes crossed, and the evolving shapes of lives, where time is not linear but inscribed in loops, etched in the earth and bodies’ strata.
De Galbert’s work delves into the tension between fragility and permanence. Her wax sculptures, with their eroding yet preserved layers, reflect the complex nature of time, while her ink drawings mimic the slow accumulation of moments, evoking the passage of time and memory. Revon’s multimedia installations and papers incorporate roots and mycelium, highlighting the hidden networks that sustain life below the surface, connecting ecosystems and human societies. Her work explores the invisible systems of growth that lie deep under, merging the organic with the human. Nelson’s conceptual clothing installations and vessels bring to life moments from history and mythology. Her use of fabric as a vector for memory reflects how objects accumulate meaning over time and her monitor vessels juxtapose the digital and the organic, highlighting journey through environments to question value systems.
Through these works, the exhibition asks: How do our roots shape the routes we take? How does time trace itself on the layers of our being, leaving behind marks that shape the future?
Roots and Routes, Tracings of Time invites viewers to explore the delicate interplay between stasis and motion and to consider the impact of the histories lying beneath us, the relationships we cultivate, and the imprints we leave behind.
Artist Biographies
Roxane Revon (b. 1986, France) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary bio-artist and scenographer. Originally from Southern France, she holds an MA in Philosophy from La Sorbonne University and furthered her studies at Yale School of Drama after moving to New York. With a decade-long career in award-winning stage direction, she has transitioned to multimedia installations that intertwine human and non-human elements, refusing to limit “nature” to the nonhuman world. Her artwork, made with organic and repurposed materials, has been exhibited in institutions such as the CICA Museum, the Rockefeller Center, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), the Invisible Dog Art Center, the LMCC Art Center, RU/ Koda House 404, and NYU Tandon ; in art fairs such as Venice Biennale, Armory Fair satellite, Art on Paper NY, Miami Aqua ; and in galleries in New York (such as Zurcher Gallery among others), Hong Kong, and Milan. She worked as a scenographer on «Shades of Spring» ballet performed at the Joyce Theater (NY) and “Cosi Fan Tutte” opera at The Kimball Theater (VA) in 2022. Recent residencies include Urban Field Station Art Program and Residency Unlimited, and she is a 2024 FUSED grant recipient from Villa Albertine. Revon’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Figaro, and Le Monde.
Camille de Galbert (b.1982) is a French-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice moves seamlessly between encaustic painting and sculpture, drawing and film. Whatever the medium she uses, this self-taught visual artist draws heavily upon movement and her past experience as a dancer. Camille de Galbert’s work revels in form, volume and texture. She uses repetitive and accumulative mark-making as a way to explore the structures and shapes of organic matter. Using wax, latex or silicone some shapes evoke the sedimentation of time, some feel like smooth skins, others can seem like distorted bodies. Camille de Galbert graduated from France’s Conservatoire of Grenoble and continued her contemporary dance studies in New York, at The Merce Cunningham Studio. Injuring her knee marked a twist of fate, as she turned her creative attention to filmmaking, sculpture and drawing. She is an artist fellow at the Jerome Foundation (USA), her artwork has been exhibited at the macLYON (France), Zurcher Gallery (New york), The Invisible Dog Art Center (New york), La Maison Rouge (Paris), me Collectors Room (Berlin), Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy). Her films were selected at over 50 festivals globally and won Best Short at the Miami Short Film Festival (2015), Blowup International Chicago and the Richmond International Film Festival (2016).
https://www.camilledegalbert.com
Caroline Voagen Nelson is a media artist working in animation, digital art, and installation. Her work has a collaged, atmospheric aesthetic that brings to life moments from history, mythology, and memory. She deconstructs and rebuilds archives and environments to create surreal recollections of the past in the moving image form. Nelson holds an MFA in Digital Art with a focus in Animation at Pratt Institute and BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a 2021 NYFA Artist Fellow in Video/Film and has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA and MWPAI art museums. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Museum of the City of New York. Her award-winning animated shorts have screened at film festivals around the world, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Animasivo el Festival in Mexico City, and Tricky Women at Film Archiv Austria. She has given several lectures and artist talks on experimental animation, most recently at Harvard University. Nelson has a background as a photo/video journalist with her prior work featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Art News Magazine, and Time Out NY. She has worked on animations for CNN, MTV and Vox. She launched a production studio with her collaborators: CUPALOY Studio. Nelson works as a professor teaching Digital Art in New York City.
Curator
Aurore Vullierme is a French Creative Director, Scenographer, and Curator based in Brooklyn, New York. With a multidisciplinary approach that blends artistic direction, set design, and exhibition curation, she crafts immersive visual experiences through close collaboration with artists, designers, and cultural institutions. Her work reflects a thoughtful balance between concept and craft. Aurore is also dedicated to supporting emerging talent and advancing inclusivity and accessibility within the art world.
https://www.aurore-vullierme.com