Caroline de Boissieu

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Caroline de Boissieu has devoted herself fully to her art since 2000, following an earlier career as a stylist. Her work begins, often, with a photograph — and from that matrix emerges something far more elusive: translucent materials such as ink, acrylic, tracing layers, plexiglas, and glass dissolve the contours until what remains is suggested, fleeting, yet haunting.

Hers is a practice of the palimpsest, a patient layering in which every technique is summoned to give the work the fullness of its breath. Light lives at its very heart. Through subtle play of shadow and reflection, each piece seems to breathe, to shift with the angle and intensity of one's gaze — never quite the same twice. Drawing on water, air, and distant shorelines without ever naming them, she opens a dreamlike space, at once transparent and opaque, still and in motion, where the viewer is gently invited to project their own memory, their own emotion.

It is a poetry that reveals itself slowly. Naturally drawn toward ever more limpid supports, she also gives her paintings an architectural presence, collaborating with architects, glassmakers, and designers in France and abroad — each work composed to live alongside those who dwell with it.