Marion Robert, a young visual artist trained at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg, has flourished in painting and drawing. Her delicately colored paintings are formally descended from second-generation Cubists such as Villon and de La Fresnaye, but in a resolutely contemporary spirit. Bodies, often faceless and reduced to ghosts, are superimposed and intermingled, emerging from backgrounds that evoke the original magma, or that gangue of conformity, that single mode of thought from which it is so difficult to free oneself. His drawings, biting, caricatural, incisive and caustic, testify to a real ability to look at the world and denounce its shortcomings and excesses, while at the same time conveying a real sympathy, an obvious compassion, for its shortcomings.