Louis-Marie Akiki (Anima)

ANIMA — Louis-Marie Akiki

Contemporary painter

Louis-Marie Akiki, known by his artist name ANIMA, is a contemporary French-Swiss painter of Lebanese origin, born in Paris in 1995 and based in Versailles. Self-taught, he has developed a deeply intuitive artistic approach based on listening, silence, and awareness of what is happening in life.

His work is part of a living research, where creation is not separated from inner experience. Art becomes an extension of the being, a way of connecting with the world not through the intellect, but through sensation, presence, and openness. What matters is not producing a work, but rather accompanying what seeks to take shape through it.

The name ANIMA, which means "soul," "breath," and "life" in Latin, reflects this stance: a way of creating from what lives, what connects, what sometimes escapes understanding but not experience. Her works seek not to illustrate, but to make felt. They open a space, a threshold, a moment to fully inhabit.

Through her art, ANIMA offers a presence, a breath, a way of encountering what, in us, often remains silent — but alive.