ORH – Roch Robaglia

ORH

ORH

I'm originally from Paris. In 1991, an Aboriginal art exhibition marked a turning point in my life. This encounter with a different way of seeing the world became the starting point for my artistic approach. I then studied history, geography, and cartography. It was during this period that I began creating my first works.

Why ORH? This name evokes the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary. How? By revealing the hidden beauty of the world around us to create suspended moments.

The relationship with time is the question that drives me through each of my works. I explore the way in which time is imprinted, suspended, or transformed. 

My inspiration comes from observing the living and human, from their interactions in a given space-time, between past, heritage and projection towards the future. It is these traces, these moving presences, that nourish my work.

Painting, drawing, and film photography allow me to capture a state, an idea, or a form at a specific moment. These are gestures of preservation, almost of resistance to oblivion. And it is in installation that my practice takes on its full dimension: by working with materials, pigments, light, and space, I seek to make these fragments of time sensitive, almost palpable.

I invite the viewer to traverse another temporality, to awaken a deep memory, inscribed in the order of life. My installations resonate with something primordial, an awareness of time that transcends the individual, between permanence and transformation.

Exhibitions

2025

Melody – March to August 2025, DYNAMO Chambéry – Residency exhibition installation in situ

Biollay Path – March – August 2025, DYNAMO Chambéry – Film photography exhibition residency

2024

Suspended – October 2024, The Base – In-situ plant painting installation 

Way back – March to September 2024 – Trans-Siberian-Mongolia-Brittany – research trip/residency,

2023

The Dream Oasis – December 2023, national stage Espace Malraux Chambéry – Solo exhibition – Collaborative in-site installation

Spirit of Savoy – September 2023, Savoie Fair Chambéry – Group exhibition – Artistic director, scenography & installation

Crossroads of the Arts – summer 2023, Lalouvesc – Group exhibition – Painting 

2022

THRESHOLD – December 2022, national stage Espace Malraux Chambéry – Solo exhibition – In-situ installation

Marlioz District – summer 2022, CAUE of Savoie, Aix-les-Bains – Research residency for the creation of a work of art

Roch Robaglia, painter – April 2022, Cultural Center, Aix-les-Bains – Solo exhibition – Painting 

Oh Cow – January 2022, national stage Espace Malraux Chambéry – Group exhibition (Collectif de la Maise) – scenography & installation

The Winter Festival of Lyon – January 2022, Lyon – Group exhibition – painting 

2021

The Abrets – October 2021, community hall, Les Abrets – Art Salon

2020

Deep Space Catalogue – Fall 2020, The Base-Malraux national stage, Chambéry – Exhibition

2019

The Abrets – October 5 to 13, 2019, town hall, Les Abrets – Art fair

Focus Chambéry – September 9 to 25, 2019, Espace Larith, Chambéry – Exhibition and scenography with GRAFFMATT

Modulations 2 – March 6, 2019, Cité des Arts, Chambéry – Group exhibition and live performance

2018

Plant Dream – December 13, 2018 to July 16, 2019, Le Quai des Arts, Chambéry – Exhibition

Art3f Salon – September 28 to 30, 2018, Lyon – Art Fair

Interfaces – April 26 to May 5, 2018, Chapelle Vaugelas, Chambéry – Group exhibition and scenography

Modulations – March 15 to 18, 2018, Le Quai des Arts, Chambéry – Live performance

2017

Bench Competition – September 2017, Chambéry – First prize in the competition

2016

Ovid – December 2016, Paris – Exhibition

Affordable Art Fair – May 2016, Paris – Art Fair