Axelle Kieffer

I grew up and spent most of my life in France. Since moving to the U.S, I found myself loving to wander around flea markets. In fact, this is how I began to buy vintage cabinet photos and old illustration books. I’m very sensitive to the expression, the shape of the face, the body position and if the photo is damaged by time. If the photo establishes a connection with me, I take it.

Often, my collages are the vehicle of eye experiments in body modification. Making traditional handmade collages is weirdly to me closed to our modern science, closed a laboratory genetic manipulation. I scalp and paste together anatomic pieces to create exquisite corpses. The scalpel cut pieces cover the image and thus reveal a new meaning at the manner of a palimpsest. Covering, hiding, assembling the pieces create new combinations. The collage breaks our vision of a known body. The making of these grotesque hybrids open new possibilities. When collage usually reduces the image to a layered pasted image, here the collage seems to aim to create a new world concealing art, anatomy and poetry.

Self-taught.

All my works on canvas are signed on the back side.

Most of my collages are framed. Dimensions given are dimensions framed.

Finalist of the Fomenar prize 2016, Italy, my work was exhibited in Europe and in the USA and can be found in private collections in Belgium, Paris, New York City, Los Angeles.

Selected Shows:
2017: Metamorphosis, Core New Space, Woman Caucus of Art, Denver, CO (upcoming)

La Dada, Megaphone, Phoenix, AZ

InterFusion, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Micro/Macro, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA

Cut it Out, Revolution gallery, Buffalo, NY

ArtBox Project 1.0, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

40th Anniversary show, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA

Fine arts Exhibition 2017 Decatur Arts Festival, Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA

Creating the void, AlterEgo Art Projects Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

The New south II, Kai Lin Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Day Dreamers, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


2016:
Fomenar prize 2016 . Roma, Italy

Cut and Paste, Site:Brooklyn , New York City, NY

Kitchen sink 2, Delurk Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

Americas Paperworks 2017, Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND

25th Southeast Regional Juried Fine Arts, Mattie Kelly Arts Center, Niceville, FL

Small but Mighty, Christopher Art Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL (upcoming)

2016: Faith, Non-Fiction gallery, Savannah, GA

Small Works, Maine street Art Gallery, Clifton Springs, NY (upcoming) Small Works, Maine street ...