Adélaïde Marchand

"My artistic practice has always been in pursuit of knowledge and personal development, and the paper roses that I shape by the thousands are no exception. They are a means of understanding and a pathway to progress, continually expressing something positive.

The roses that I generate are "fundamental" to my work in that they are both the form and the substance. They are like an inexhaustible, enduring and constantly renewed source, one that is intrinsically eternal and ephemeral; the roses represent what remains beyond impermanence.

Each work is insightful, a mirror between my surroundings and me, what I feel or experience from the reciprocity between man and the universe; each work is a mirror for viewers and the roses act as many reflectors.

In affinity with Kandinsky’s philosophical thinking, I do what I believe to be right, bound above all to inner necessity from which the form of the work ensues."

- Adelaide Marchand