Le compotier Aurélie Sicas

Le compotier Aurélie Sicas – Drawing produced for the exhibition ” A la recherche de Madame Cezanne”

Born in Lisbon in 1979, Aurélie Sicas has lived and worked in Nantes for 15 years. After a first year at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, the need to discover new horizons led her to the Institut des Arts Visuels de la Martinique. Passionate about silver photography and painting, she obtained her DNAP with the congratulations of the jury. She continued her work as a painter until rediscovering charcoal in 2018. She now devotes herself entirely to this practice.

“The human figure is the starting point for my visual research. Perceived as a complex and paradoxical enigma, I attempt to unravel its mystery through the staging of fictional characters. But who are they? What role(s) do they play? Are they aware of it?
Drawing on personal experience as well as the history of art and cinema, my work questions intimacy, appearance, (in)communicability, empathy, duality, otherness…

Using a variety of artifices (clothing and accessories), I give body to all kinds of characters, with no gender limits. Through this approach, I seek to experience the other, sometimes using stereotypes, whether conscious or not. J.-C. Kaufmann wrote “the subject is never so much himself as when he becomes other”… I seek psychological tension through gestures that reveal subtle inner and unconscious states. In my latest series, the absence of faces brings great freedom of interpretation while invoking the metaphor of the mask.” […]

Le compotier Aurélie Sicas

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