At first sight, Natalie Shau's works plunge us into an harmless universe of tales. Delicate creatures seem to pose in a perfectly ordered setting. It emanates an ineffable quietude that gradually gives way to questioning - Under the appearance of "déjà-vu", pierce the strangeness that disturbs. These dreamlike images go beyond the aesthetics of fairy tales, create disturbing questions
We can not define her paintings, they are conflicting, everything contradicts itself: the strange becomes the norm.
Our subconscious shaped by images of advertising and eroticism led us to project in these paintings our lost innocence, with a hint of guilt.
The art critic Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret said this is a sado-dream world.
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