Catherine Balet\'s new series Moods in a Room plays with virtual reality by mixing pictorial textures and digital photographic elements.
And it is indeed in this overflowing imagination, in this irrepressible desire to express the world around her, that Catherine Balet reveals our desires, fantasies and fears in the open and claims, in an artistic posture at crossroads, a great freedom of expression, embracing the possibilities of creation with its ever-expanding limits "..
Yet the artist deliberately frees herself from the great masters and feeds on many other materials.
Hockney, Bacon, Picasso and so many others invite themselves to her table, interacting with the work in progress.
Catherine Balet has been building for years the successive layers of a memory sedimentation, a palimpsest, drawing references to the great movements of painting...
Fannie Escoulen, curator, writes : "...
The resulting compositions reveal the various states of consciousness of the artist, and illustrate her commitment to endlessly explore the dualities between content and absence, space and surface.
Using images she collects from her personal archives, she superimposes them in multiple layers, giving a material feel to the unreal and a virtuality to her material images.
Catherine Balet\'s new series Moods in a Room plays with virtual reality by mixing pictorial textures and digital photographic elements
