Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is pleased to announce Timbre in the current, a solo exhibition by Nate Lewis presented simultaneously at its Paris and Luxembourg galleries, from 20 October to 19 December 2026.

The exhibition marks the launch of Lewis’s most recent body of work: new sculpted paper pieces exploring systems, patterns, and their intersections within the natural and cultural landscapes we inhabit.

Lewis is recognized for his intricate figurative works on paper, combining photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, and paper sculpting into textures that evoke cellular tissue and topographical relief, an approach informed by his years as a critical care nurse and his understanding of the body at both macroscopic and microscopic scales.

Timbre is the unique quality, color, or texture of a sound that distinguishes it from its source. Lewis is interested in the idea of deciphering information through timbre and in the interrelationship between timbre and movement. In select works, the figures’ heads appear to be hidden amongst a suspension of texture or sound waves that reveal themselves upon closer inspection.

Lewis uses black and white to create fields of texture. He reads each pattern or rhythm of texture as its own timbre. This approach echoes the aesthetic of radiographic imagery and other techniques of visualizing or deciphering information. Figures in the work appear to be in motion and, at times, static against moving backgrounds of raised textures, rubbings of musical scores, fabric rubbings, and the rhythmic cadence of painting. The mark- making recalls sound waves, currents of wind, microscopic processes, and other patterns found in the biological and natural world.

Winged forms take shape. Rendered through texture, rhythm, and line, the butterflies carry a simplified timbre; threadlike markings expose a skeletal structure beneath the form. A recurring motif of metamorphosis resonates with Lewis’s own sculptural gesture: cut, creased, and incised, the paper becomes a living organism, a figure of molting and resilience.