Elephant, 2024

Muriel Matt  

Muriel MATT is a self-taught artist born in 1976.

Through her works, deeply rooted in the world of childhood, she makes the motto her own:

“Paint the soul, embrace life."

The artist invites us to cultivate our inner child, the one who welcomes existence with wide eyes, to better marvel and let ourselves be surprised.

"All grown-ups were once children, but few of them remember it."

(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

My paintings call upon our buried childhood memories, but whose brilliance remains intact.

Thus, looking at her works is a mirror game with the childlike part that vibrates in each of us, in order to capture the splendor of the world with a candor and a rediscovered simplicity, because, she is sure, the marvelous is nestled in the ordinary: a purring cat, a flower to smell, the sun that shines, a contagious smile, laughing eyes, shimmering colors and beating hearts... each canvas offers her a new opportunity to breathe this message, an ode to a life without artifice.

In addition to the presence of naive graphics, animated by an explosion of colors, there is the relief which brings the characters to life by emphasizing their expressions.

United by a strong stylistic kinship, his paintings nevertheless display a significant diversity where this shimmering, powerfully evocative harmony always beats.

Her refined creations are an opportunity to explore the feminine and to highlight the part of softness, vulnerability and mystery specific to each woman.

Sobriety is sought here through a few strokes and the alternation of thick and thin strokes; the expression "less is more" which could be translated as "the little is the best" defines his minimalist approach to his female portraits or even his revisited Venuses.