BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bordeaux , this emerging artist went through many changes before moving into images.
A graduate of political science and international business , school teacher then massage therapist , she has lived in many cities in France and around the world.
Passed from the intellect to the sensory,
From brain to heart
From Sciences Pô to Sciences Peau,
she finally responds to this visceral call to
Rainer Maria Rilke :
“Would you die if you were forbidden to...?”
2014 marks its passing with the impression of its gaze
on the art canvas,
as his ultimate response to the poet.
Two years later,
she has her first exhibition
in the Manhattan district,
At New York.
“I often photograph ordinary objects from unusual angles, to unmask their shadows, their secrets, and provide another vision of their existence, their identity, and by extension, ours.
What interests me is not the usefulness of the thing, but the thing itself.
Nathalie's work focuses precisely on the unperceived spaces in mundane objects. The intensity of his work eludes categorization as art, photography, or anything visual for that matter. It could be described as a residual imprint of schizoid spaces invisible in the daily flashes of time. Lacan best describes this type of activity: “the whole thing, the Hey presto! (1) of the classical dialectic around perception, comes from the fact that it deals with geometric vision, that is to say vision to the extent that it is located in a space which is not in its essence the visual. Excerpt from the ALN New York exhibition, June 2016.
(1) “Hey Presto”: an expression announcing the success of a trick, or suggesting that something has been done so easily that it appears to be magic.