Axelle Remeaud

Visual Artist


The anatomy of gender

Woman is at the heart of Axelle Remeaud's body of work. Through the dreams of disillusioned sentimental little girls she reveals the angel, the temptress, the fertile goddess and the obscene medusa. Mouth, breasts, vagina, legs, high heels, wedding gowns, floral motifs... the entire scope of the feminine conjugated as desire, curvy symbols, and fragments of an anatomy that, separating the parts from the whole, revels in fetishism. The young artist skillfully weaves knitting and introspection with the rejection of misogynist stereotypes, inspired as much by portraiture as by Gender Studies, while avoiding the corny and conceptual.
Far from tame, her work is irreverent, malicious, impertinent, subtle, and dangerously sensual, full of ironic contradictions and critical ambiguity. Seduction is a trap where the attractive flirts with the repulsive, where desire meets disgust. Genres and eras blur to form a hybrid that echoes the formal rhetoric of the surrealists and inspires the imagination. Emerging from the rapid stroke of a pencil, separated from the rest of the body, female body parts reveal carnal topographies, an unknown and complex landscape teaming with life in the form of anc...

2002 – 2007 : School of Fine Arts of France (ENSAB/ Bourges).
2007 : DNSEP (National high degree of Contemporary Art ) / equivalence MASTER.
2005 : DNAP (National degree of Contemporary Art) / equivalence LICENSE, felicitation of jury.