Payen Charlotte

My work questions the notion of faults. That which I call fault but is in fact disorder, imperfection. Its physical impact magnified. The drawings emerged, little less than a year ago, from my work with paint. A desire to deepen my carefully about using this technique was born during this period. I address issues such as individuality, modification, distortion, mutation. How the psyche, subjected to trauma, to the « implosion », can alter or distort a person or a body ?

How the « invisible », « quiet » side of things or individuals affect their bodies suddenly or gradually : the dysfunction. That which overflows, (no longer) contains itself, is under pressure and is on the borderline. What which we believe to control.

I see my work as a deMONSTRration of what is out of the norm, out of the ordinary. Not to disturb ut to question the boundary between perfection and imperfection.I draw my inspiration mainly from an iconography which is most of the timemedical or scientific (clinical cases of mutation, deformation, mutilation …). All text and pictures that interest me are from artists with surrealist influence, American crime novels as well as mythology, legends and stories.

I live and work in Paris.

2015 The Lab Gallery , Marseille
2013 Gallery Nicolas Silin , Paris
2011> 2013 Artist Assistant Franck Scurti
Galcante 2012 (Paris), ECHOES , Drawings
2011 Galcante (Paris ) Drawings / Paintings , Installation and research on the earthquake in Fukushima
2010 Galerie La Petite Rockette (Paris) , Installation / Painting / Music and performance
2008 Gallery Nguyentanchuong , Espace Commines (Paris)
Polit Buro 2007 (Paris), Paintings
2006 Rose Gallery (Bordeaux)
2005 Municipal Gallery of Enghien- Les-Bains
2004 Triage ( Nanterre) , ArtMusique with me Cornette de Saint Cyr