Caroline De Boissieu

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Caroline de Boissieu has devoted herself fully to her art since 2000, following an earlier career as a textile designer. Her work often begins with a photograph — and from this matrix emerges something far more elusive: translucent materials such as ink, acrylic, tracing paper, plexiglass and glass dissolve the contours until they suggest what remains, fleeting yet haunting.
Hers is a practice of the palimpsest, a patient labour of layering in which each technique is called upon to bring the work to its fullness. Light lives at its very heart. Through a subtle play of shadows and reflections, each work seems to breathe, to shift with the gaze and its intensity — never quite the same. Drawing her inspiration from water, air and distant shores without ever naming them, she opens a dreamlike space, at once transparent and opaque, still and in motion, where the viewer is gently invited to project their own memories, their own emotions.
It is a poetry that reveals itself slowly. Naturally drawn to ever more limpid supports, she also lends her paintings an architectural presence, collaborating with architects, glassmakers and designers in France and abroad — each work conc...