Marie Jacotey
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This abstract artwork features a geometric, black-and-white composition with bold contrasting shapes and lines. The central focus is a series of rectangular frames or windows, creating a sense of depth and perspective. The background depicts a simplified, stylized landscape with vegetation and natural elements. The overall style appears to be a modernist exploration of form, space, and the relationship between interior and exterior environments. The artist likely intended to convey a sense of minimal, yet dynamic, architectural design and its interaction with the natural world. ...
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Marie Jacotey
FrenchMarie Jacotey draws inspiration from human interactions and the expression of emotions in various contexts, including architecture, landscape, and environment. Her paintings examine details such as wallpaper, furniture, clothes, patterns, patinas, and textures. Despite using manual techniques such as painting on plaster and dust sheets, making pencil drawings, using soft pastel on Japanese paper, and sewing fabrics, her pieces incorporate perspectives that allude to the realm of film, slow-motion, and the photographer's viewpoint. Jacotey's practice focuses more on lyrical expression rather than political commentary, featuring stylized visuals that tell personal, diary-like stories about relatable situations, sexuality, everyday relationships, and the female body. Her work conveys a narrative through accompanying fragments of text sourced from various places, including books by Henry Miller and snippets of conversations overheard in cafes or between friends. She also borrows imagery from Instagram, which is particularly noteworthy given the platform's role in shaping and reflecting how women experience and portray their lives online. ...