This monograph presents the work of Renée Lavaillante, a Quebec artist who devotes herself exclusively to drawing. Nathalie Miglioli analyzes the different roles of line in the artist's exploration over the past thirty years. How does line truly relate to the senses (sight, touch), to spaces (on the motif or blindly in the studio) and to the actions called for (walking, telling, drawing)? At a time when uncertainty and precision mingle, what parameters allow us to measure the mastery of line? How does the line define the act of drawing? These are some of the subjects that Nathalie Miglioli delves into in the book, which aims to understand the metamorphoses that the line undergoes when the artist digs into the relationship between gesture and the various ways of conceiving drawing.

"In blindness, at the mercy of the accident, subjected to the footsteps of strangers or the voices of walkers, the line in the artist Renée Lavaillante's work emerges, however, from indocility. In the course of her projects, the line takes up routes, reveals paths, represents the chance of movement or marks the passage of time. Always the result of a kind of diversion or a negation of conventions, she seeks the manifestation of a drawing that is unfaithful to the classical definitions of disegno. "(N. Miglioli)

The book contains ninety colour plates covering the years 1986-2015, notices written by the artist, as well as an illustrated chronology and a bibliography.