Along the Mississipi river 1977, 2026

Marie-Ange Daudé  

Plastic artist, born in 1964 in Limoges, Marie Ange is a portraitist and feather artist

Through her portraits she expresses her desire for aestheticism and femininity as well as her penchant for melancholy and nostalgia. Her faces are strong and express a rare emotion. 

With different mediums (here encaustic), she questions our ability to recall a time (that of her childhood), using vintage photos that she appropriates by blurring them, putting them in fog, making them tell another story

Encaustic once painted melts with an iron to give the work an unreal, blurred, and distorted appearance.

This figurative composition captures a suspended moment during a summer picnic. The gaze travels through a family scene where silhouettes relax on a tablecloth with red patterns. The chromatic treatment is bold. The artist favors a palette stripped down to grays and whites, leaving little room for color. Only a few details catch the eye: the bright red of a garment and the sunny yellow of an object placed on the ground.. The wax brings a tactile thickness to the surface. The line is assured, almost sketched, to convey the harsh light of a summer day. In the background, cars and stylized vegetation anchor the scene in a nostalgic everyday life. The close framing plunges the viewer into the heart of this intimacy. Each shape is simplified to emphasize the essential of human interaction. The light seems to glide over the mixed textures, creating a play of contrasts between the areas of shadow and the luminous blocks. The whole forms a collective portrait where time seems to have stopped.