Caroline de Boissieu

“Coté Ouest” January 2005

In the search for moments lost to time

…Someone purifies and exhibits their delicate solitude through colors, emotions, and instants.

These are the slender silhouettes that walk alone.

The sketch of a child picking up a seashell, a wave that roars and crashes on a beach somewhere, these simple instants fixed to the canvas…Caroline de Boissieu pursues these lost moments, nothing else; regardless of whether or not her work evokes the seaside of Boudin with fugitive silhouettes, the artist is affixed in her own universe.

She uses photography as a preliminary material, a piece of clay that she fashions and purifies until only the essential remains, an important pose or a stolen gesture.  More precisely, she scratches layers off of printed photographs to take away the actual image.

The group is traced on Plexiglas, which accentuates the transparence of the game of matter.  Plastician and Painter of the time, Caroline nimbly created with this playful technique some poetic compositions.  The painting brings out a slightly abstract, dream-like side in these landscapes and real-life situations.  The first actor, the water, interferes, expands upon or completely invades the canvas.  Equally omnipresent, the white that the artist favors in her clouds, almost transparent on top of its photographic support obliges the artist to rework it on tracing paper like a luminous train to underline certain scenes.

With a touch of impressionism, Caroline describes memories.  In the wake of her characters’ approaching steps, our own lives…Her success confirms her artistic command.

Agnès BENOIT