Les yeux sous les sourcils, 2020

Agathe de Chantérac  

Agathe de Chantérac, born in 1993 in Paris, is a contemporary artist based in La Rochelle. Her work explores the fragility of identity: between face and mask, control and vulnerability, silence and explosion. Her introspective and mysterious world is populated by enigmatic and impassive figures with intense gazes and expressive hands, who seem to oscillate between absence and intense presence.

Agathe de Chantérac works with acrylics and oils in a deliberately limited palette of deep, luminous blue monochromes, a signature of her work. This blue contributes to an introspective, silent, and strange atmosphere, where the figures seem suspended outside of time.

Among her influences is Picasso, whose exploration of the face as a mask reveals the full expressive power of simplified forms. Her work also shares a sensibility akin to Surrealism, where the figure becomes the vehicle for a silent psychological intensity, on the border between the real and the unreal. Finally, the artist draws from Peggy Kuiper's world an atmosphere of mystery and suspension that nourishes her own exploration of presence and identity.