Camille Chastang

After training in applied arts (textile design), Camille Chastang graduated from a school of Fine Arts, Villa Arson in Nice. She has since maintained a link between these two disciplines, considered as sworn enemies. “This minor arts/major arts opposition has revealed another, which seems to be extremely linked: female artists confined to a so-called “minor" genre and (male) artists to a so-called “major" art. It then came to me the desire to deconstruct this relationship by attempting a (modest) de-hierarchization of subjects and mediums. The question of the pattern as a decorative element is therefore recurrent in my work. The floral motif also comes up regularly in my drawings and my installations. The flower and the decoration share a long love story, which therefore leads to the association woman-flower-decoration, in which the flower and the female figure seem to be linked forever, and in an almost systematic way. I therefore seek to using a number of subjects that have been assigned to the "feminine", not to deconstruct them, but to claim them, my admiration for the decorative being not at all cynical but on the contrary empathetic".