Voltige, 2026

Mathilde A.  

Voltige is a mixed-media work, which depicts the graceful movement of an acrobat, in the weightlessness of an underwater landscape.

Between dance, dream and immersion, it speaks of freedom and letting go, and of the art of finding one's balance in a moving environment.

It is an organic work, which mixes different materials and techniques. 
The character is painted in watercolor, then cut out and integrated into the whole. The seabed is composed of natural and colored sands hand-painted, and shapes painted and cut out from printed and textured papers.

A painting that explores movement, in a poetic and airy relationship to the body, and a gentle presence in its environment.

The work is carefully varnished, and sold with its frame, without glass.

Description 

is a mixed-media work of 40 × 60 cm that explores the impression of lightness and weightlessness, through the grace of an acrobat moving in an underwater landscape.

Between surrender and elevation

Suspended in the heart of the depths, the figure seems to escape the laws of weight and time. Its body unfolds with fluidity among the seaweed, as carried by the water. it evokes that rare moment when one stops resisting to be carried by the movement. 
The work speaks of freedom, trust and letting go, but also of the inner strength necessary to find one's balance in a moving environment. 
Between dance, dream and immersion, the acrobat becomes the symbol of a fully alive presence.

A composition that associates material and drawing

The work is made from a meticulous collage of natural materials and elements from the visual arts. Natural sands, used raw or hand-colored, build the depth of the seabed and its variations of light, which filter through the movements of the water. The figure and certain plant elements are painted in watercolor and acrylic felt-tip pens, then cut out and integrated into the composition. Papers cut in different shades of blue, green and white draw the seaweed, the corals and the organic shapes that surround the acrobat.

An almost tactile immersion

From afar, the gaze is immediately drawn to the moving silhouette, luminous in the heart of the aquatic universe. Up close, the work reveals itself as a landscape of materials: the mineral grain of the sand, the transparencies of the watercolor, the outlines of the papers and the work of colors give the surface a living presence. 
One imagines the coolness of the water, the slow swaying of the seaweed and the sensation of the body freed from its weight. This close reading becomes instinctive and sensory, like a silent dive into a world where every gesture prolongs itself with softness.

A poetic and airy work, which will bring to your interior a sensation of freedom, movement and escape.

✦ Original work by Mathilde A. 
Sold framed: in a raw wood frame, without glass.
The work is carefully varnished.

✦ Composition: cut watercolor painting, cut papers, painted in watercolor and enhanced with acrylic felt-tip pens, raw and colored natural sands.