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Before Language

Jacqueline de Jong

6 June to 25 July 2026 · Galerie Allen, Paris

Before Language

Galerie Allen is pleased to present Before Language, an exhibition bringing together a group of paintings by Jacqueline de Jong produced between 1960 and 1964. These works belong to a formative moment in her practice, when painting appears to still be inventing its own grammar.

The title Before Language also points to a place where painting precedes naming: before forms become bodies, characters, or narratives, they exist as gestures, tensions, and still-open signs. Human and non-human forms coexist in a state of continuous transformation, suspended between tenderness, violence, humour, and hallucination.

Installation views

Works in the exhibition

  • Sleep in Oblivia

    Jacqueline de Jong

    Sleep in Oblivia, 2023

    Oil stick on canvas paper

    140 x 184 cm

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  • No Narrative

    Jacqueline de Jong

    No Narrative, 2022

    Oil stick on canvas paper

    140 x 219 cm

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  • Mysterie

    Jacqueline de Jong

    Mysterie, 1977

    Oil on canvas

    192 x 132 cm

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  • Beginner's Luck

    Jacqueline de Jong

    Beginner's Luck, 1976-8

    Oil on canvas

    114 x 87 cm

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