The Human Being in Tension
Resistant to overly linear biographies, she believes that her works tell her story. “My artistic birth perhaps dates back to 2005, with a lump of clay placed on a kitchen table,” she says. “But in reality, it is rooted in a long process that began in childhood, when I was already playing in the mud, shaping old oak trees with roots as numerous as their branches.”
Self-taught, she never received any academic training in visual arts. “I never set foot in the School of Fine Arts or the University of Drawing,” she confides. “I don’t have any art degree, so I became a journalist.” But one day, words were no longer enough. Writing confined emotions in a straitjacket of letters, while matter, on the other hand, could be kneaded, deformed, and sculpted to give form to buried anxieties.
At the heart of her work is an obsession: the human being, a prisoner of him or herself. This common thread runs through all of her work and is found in her sculptures marked by tension, confinement, and resilience.
Among her solo exhibitions, one notable example is Brave New World at the Galerie Pièce Unique in Paris. She has also participated in several group exhibitions, including Monologue à deux in Meaux and the OSTRALE biennial in Dresden, where she has exhibited several times. Her sculpture ELLE was presented at the Salon d’Automne, at OSTRALE (Dresden), in Potsdam, and in Amsterdam.
Today, her works are part of several private collections in Europe and Asia.