<p>Frédérique Tristant is a French artist born in Vannes in 1971, who lives and works in Brittany in Morbihan.<br />
In gallery since 2018, Frédérique TRISTANT is both a specialist in semiotics, holder of a doctorate from the University of Bordeaux, and a painter whose training has been validated by a CAPES.<br />
This dual training permeates her work, offering beyond its graphic aspect, a reflection on the nature of representation resulting from the university course on the image of bodies through the tools of reproduction (photographs, videos) and investigation scientific (radiology, scanner, MRI etc.).<br />
From this reflection, she seeks the limit, the tension between the physical reality of skins and bodies and the dreamlike vision offered by representation: subtle recreation of this reality in a two-dimensional space materialized by a few pictorial layers finer than the epidermis. <br />
She explains:<br />
“As in my research on the first photographic atlas of dermatology by Dr. Hardy and Montmeja in 1868, I retouch each portrait with watercolor and acrylic paint. I appropriate a physiognomy that I reshape and remake as I wish. I refine my masks which tell women's stories like the diary of our melancholy, our absences and our sensuality”</p>
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