“My artwork is a visual manifestation born from the synthesis of modern existence's
digitization and digitalization, a medium through which I articulate the enigmatic facets of my inner
self. Ultimately, my photographic compositions and drawings illuminate the intrinsic connection
I nurture with the essence of life itself.”
I am a French woman living in the United States, and I have been practicing photography for about twenty years. My current artistic work consists of diverting the forms and the objects photographed so as to make an original visual. Photography is a way for me to paint the emotions I experience when I get into contact with reality and otherness. Fundamentally, I capture the ephemeral meeting with the object in order to lastingly retain it, and the emotion it engendered. I shape reality, I revisit it, and I draw from it to create a more personal narrative and thus free myself from reality. Rather than reflecting accurately and faithfully what my eye observes and retains, my work aims to transfigure my perceptions of the world around me.
I have always been passionate about visual arts and artists, and I started attending drawing and painting workshops from an early age. The arts from the Italian and French Renaissance, the Flemish Masters, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Realism, Orientalism, Abstract Art, Surrealism, and écollage are some of the art movements that aroused my curiosity and therefore pushed me to study them; all these movements were central to my artistic education. Additionally, I have a complete admiration for the artists Joan Miro and Jean Michel Basquiat. My eclectic artistic tastes also include artists such as Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Chagall, Modigliani, Matisse, Pollock, Mimmo Rotella and Villeglé, to name just a few. I was trained in drawing in Civil Engineering, Communication, Journalism and Multimedia, and worked in various fields of activity in France. Owing to a life change and subsequent move to a different continent, almost 4 years ago, I started devoting myself exclusively to artistic and photographic creation, thanks to the support of my husband Olivier. I am currently working with an interior designer in Washington, D.C. I have been creating a portfolio of unique photographic creations that help personalize each of the designed interiors.
With the emergence of new information technologies and the appearance of the first digital SLR in 2002, I naturally embraced digital photography as a great tool of personal and artistic expression. I started by photographing people, moments, and life events ... Working with individuals was an intense and emotionally rich experience, however I felt the urge to try something else. This is why I have moved towards a different type of artistic work, that does not involve staging or a scenario, drawing instead my inspiration from my immediate urban environment and from nature.
Objects and forms have become the main source of my creative impulse and my photographic work. I photograph exclusively with my I-Phone; these pictures then become material to work with and to transform. I use the most common and widely used image processing software. To me, Adobe Photoshop is indispensable. My art is an aesthetic product resulting from the digitization and digitalization of contemporary life, through which I express the mystical part of my personality. Finally, my photographic creations highlight the organic relationship that I maintain with life.
My creative approach allows me to offer to everyone a way of seeing the world differently and freely; my artistic creations are thus objects of encounter and emotion. Throughout the years, I’ve had the great fortune to work on some truly inspiring projects while meeting many influential and creative individuals along the way. I believe that working together creates a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.