Bal des brûlés, 2020

Flora Gueton  

A latecomer to the artistic world, Flora Guéton, a self-taught artist from Puy de Dôme, expresses herself through the materials she collects. Everything around her inspires her; she observes, feels, and imagines. Echoing a slow, painful but necessary personal metamorphosis, she finally allows herself to express the excess of a heightened sensitivity and her condition as a woman through her works.

Wood, fabrics, shells, old objects...worn, patinated, dented, piled up like second-hand treasures, she assembles them, lets them compose. Through poems, she continues to take the viewer to the depths of her characters.

A combination of perfectly imperfect materials, reflections of our human singularities, she works around time. A bridge; between the world before and the world after. Like a cabinet of curiosities, warmed by forgotten colors, a melancholy of times past emerges, the strong presence of our sacred heritage, and the trembling uncertainty of a mortal future.

A marriage of singular art and upcycling, without varnish and a minimum of fixatives, she leaves her work free to move, age and acquire a patina in a perpetual movement.