Artists: Judith Rothchild - Yves Chadouët

The Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery presents Judith Rothchild’s latest two books: George Orwell (2026) and Sonatine (2025).

In her latest work, Rothchild takes as its provocation the entirety of George Orwell's prose which, when stripped to its bones, has a moral clarity that borders on the simple visual language of the fists and hands of resistance she draws. Rothchild treats his sentences less as text to illustrate than as armatures from which to build a visual world. It is closer to translation if anything, one medium striving to carry the ethical weight of the other.

Rothchild’s Sonatine appeals to a more intimate source - Marguerite Long's writings on the music of Gabriel Fauré. Long knew Fauré personally, studied with him, performed his work under his own supervision, and her prose carries the particular authority of a musician describing music from inside the act of playing it. Rothchild likewise translates Long’s writings into a visual language with an unbounded semantics. She reads Long's works much like Long listens to Fauré - finding in it a rhythm, a phrasing, an understanding of it that she then renders in ink on paper.

A selection of mezzotints by Rothchild will be additionally on display, alongside a monotypes by Yves Chadouët. These works (a part of Chadouët’s daily routine) are a type of visual journaling, allowing a private view into snapshots of Chadouët’s day-to-day life that are as intimate as the medium’s small, delicate size.