Luce Meunier pursues abstract fields that ethereally hover at the juncture of control and unpredictability. Implementing a programmatic methodology, gesture is largely accorded to the medium itself as waterborne pigments are repeatedly introduced to suffuse surfaces in duration, creating layers of palpably organic forms accumulating in a formal geometry. With the series, Eaux de surface, Meunier triggers successive layers of pigment moving inward from the periphery to coax fugitive gestures made by time and gravity as paint encounters the canvas surface. In the most recent work of the series, Eaux de surface #9, Meunier includes the centre of the canvas as a point of trajectory, resulting in forms suggestive of a Rorschach-like doubling, but achieved through aleatory approximation. In Eaux de surface, areas of the unprimed canvas remain bare, registering the tactility of the woven fabric to underscore the reductive formula of paint, canvas, absorption. Meunier’s determinations around the pictorial are almost entirely located within an antecedent conceptualization, predictive of a given medium’s response to a set of conditions — effectively, mapping chance — and activated by time. There is a prevailing imperative to geometry across each series, through mechanisms of the grid, the act of doubling, or repeated forms, and Meunier demonstrates its elastic legibility, with her various processes consistently privileging chance over precision.