Karine Paoli

"The founding act of my artistic creation is the gift my father gave me on my 12th birthday, my first camera. It allowed the teenager I was to transform her rebellion into creation.

From the first Polaroid to film photography, to digital and my mobile phone, the camera is an extension of myself, my third eye that captures my vision of the world in a positive acceptance. "A mirror of Paris" is the visual counterpart of the "camera obscura" where the image is seen upside down, but from this reverse a truth emerges, which hints at what I consider essential, a fleeting and graphic shadow, an urban detail invisible to most, a ghost town destroyed, a "gaffed" nature, the eye sees beyond what is shown. In this artistic practice, my vision sweeps the world like a backdrop where Man is present only by the traces he has left behind.

Text by Laurence Guerrieri – Gallery owner – Artist agent.

Karine Paoli is also the President of the Association "PARISARTISTES # and Objective WOMEN" and the Founder of the HUG ME Concept.