In France as China engraving is a long and widely used technology, which has its origins in the history of printing. The engraving gained its letters of nobility in France in the late 19th century. The medium became more accepted when the need for strictly limited editions to maintain the price had been realized.

La Plantation, as the promoter of the Sino-French cultural exchange, presents the artworks of three women involved in engraving. 3 women with different living backgrounds, 3 different personalities, 3 different approaches, shows of course very different traces of life. But through the same media engravure, they suceeded in presenting their colorful spirits and soul.

Dong Hong Zhang explores with obsession a world of fantastic aquatic creatures relatives of the first animals specimens inhabiting the earth in prehistoric times, a paradise where people can get their life completely released, a wonderland of freedom that we can really habit in. These works seem as a meditative quest to understand our distant origins, or perhaps our current fears.

Annick Gaston, by means of monochrome silhouettes, touched many subjects such as solitude, exodus and family. Humanity is in the center of her concerns. Every personage wears a special expression and that is the very charm of the deeply human work.

Sophie Paoli, often use a furious energy to realize her works. Her work serves as an outlet and escape. Her themes, her daughter, herself and the other one: the human beings, other humans who surround us but donnot always make us feel the presence of humanity.

Engraving is, with architecture, painting, sculpture, music and dance, is the indispensable essence the fine arts, it is marked us the traces of life that we human beings can leave to the world.