Marie-Hélène Carcanague

Silent enigmas, the traces, the imprints, and the scars of time question and inspire Marie-Hélène Carcanague. The appearance of the rocks, the old decaying walls that have been painted many times, the bark of trees, the oxidized metals, the scribbles and the graffiti… For her, each surface is a memory and tells a story.

After years of professional photography, painting has led her to a more personal, more "rough," intuitive, almost primitive form of writing. She loves the gesture and the tactility it implies. Playing with chance, slips, and accidents. No longer controlling, disobeying, making stains, splashing around, walking in puddles… By constantly experimenting, moving towards the unknown, she says she surprises herself. Mainly using acrylic, she ventures into textures, layering, in transparency or thickness, to which collages, imprints, or mysterious writings are sometimes added.

Between abstraction and figuration, her painting questions humanity, which she qualifies as a badly raised animal, in the chaotic biotope it has created. With a backdrop of a disordered world, she invites us to the edges of a dreamlike and fanciful universe.

Education: School of Fine Arts / ISDAT Toulouse

Main solo exhibitions: Cultural Center Chabran Draguignan, Cultural Center H. Desbals Toulouse, House of Arts Bages, House Gramont Fanjeaux, Cultural Center Aveyron, Arts Point de Vue Lauzerte...