artist/ Balthazar

France

A 1990 graduate of the Lyon School of Applied Arts, she has since been exploring, through her paintings, the themes of memory, representation, and the transformation of memories.

Her painting is part of a creative process on canvas that blends several media: paint, photography, and engraved text.

The inscriptions—composed of words, dates, and places—evoke the emotions experienced. Their presence is perceptible only through their relief in the material, without being legible. The realistic and objective rendering of her photographs blends with the painting through a blurred effect, causing the motifs to almost disappear. These are partial fragments of photographs—like so many traces of reality—incorporated into the painting.

Something is always disappearing or reappearing, like the flickering field of a reflection or a memory. Neither figurative nor abstract, her works transcend the limits of perception. Each canvas is executed using its own distinct color palette, which underscores their unreality.