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 en- during, 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.