Small black house - Limited Edition 1 of 6 Photograph

PARCOURS Winning the national photography schools competition on graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Christine Mathieu exhibited her images for the first time. After a 3-year residency/collaboration at the American Art Center in Paris, where she received support from CMAP (Photography Department of the American Center for Artists) to experiment with new media, she founded L’épicerie, the graphic studio which, ever since, has been producing work for public buildings: museums, cultural and social facilities. (colour - material – graphic design – artistic proposals). Over the same period, her participation in events focusing on original graphic creations in France led to her being asked to create artistic installations. Since 2002, the end results of her artistic explorations have also been manifested in constantly renewed forms of photography. Today her images are included in national and international exhibitions and collections. BIOGRAPHY A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Christine Mathieu defines herself as a multi-disciplinary and undisciplined artist. “My interest in foreign literature, my work as a graphic designer on historic and memorial sites, my artistic proposals based on heritage objects, and my attraction to ethnographic collections provide me with a range of possibilities to travel in time and space.” “My attention is particularly focused on objects connected to women’s history. Daily objects devoted to feminine tasks, which bear witness to the intensity of this work down through time, across societies and cultures. And then there is finery. Wearing an ornament is not accidental. Every set of finery communicates information. These objects are charged with symbols.” Christine Mathieu’s artistic work visits the ancestral symbolism of these objects that are so ordinary and so extraordinary. In the wake of Louise Bourgeois and Ghada Amer, via Annette Messager, many of her productions also invest the field of textile design.