Bio

Born: 1990 / Based In: Amiens

Pauline Di Valentin, French artist from Amiens, creates ink drawings on paper depicting lost architectures in the midst of abundant vegetation.
In these drawings on paper, pastel villas stand in an isolated district, in the middle of a dense jungle that breaks our bearings. The ink, diluted, blured, allows marbled effects, transparencies or gradations. And it is mainly in a palette of roses and greens that the architectural and plant world of these imaginary places are diffused in paper. From one image to another, we find a resonance, between the varieties of plants and trees, the architectures, the colors, the objects, the characters who seem to respond as belonging to the same place, to the same idea.

Statement

What is concretized in these drawings are feelings, desires, memories to which are associated colors, landscapes, places, characters. These associations express a kind of softness of life, a quietness but sometimes also a tension that would call a before or after. The use of a certain color palette pushes each of these drawings to echo like the houses in the same neighborhood. There is often a warmth that emerges, a summer atmosphere, a fire, night lights with an abundance of vegetation that gives the place an intimacy or at least produces an isolation, a comfortable, even heavenly seclusion. But it is not just a decor, it is spaces that open and close. A door, a window or even a hole lets us glimpse another room or the shadows of a presence and calls us to imagine another space, a suite, at least a possible narrative that everyone can follow or let fade away. Spaces are delimited more by opacity and abundance of vegetation than they are actually enclosed. They invite us to follow the openings and to immerse ourselves in the places.