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Hailing from the Alps, Camille Fournier is a self-taught painter born in France in 1986.
In her works, the artist reinterprets memories of her mountainous childhood by creating vanishing lines and helical ellipses.
These elements impart a swirling motion effect on the canvas.
According to Camille, her lines have the duty to "Always break out of the frame."
The chosen pure white acrylic intertwines with deep black ink.
Their union creates a vivid and swirling impression, almost real, even mesmerizing when one focuses on their curves.
The poetry, joy, thirst for freedom, but also the pain that this union conveys are felt through the artist's creations.
Camille translates this palette of emotions into lines, which she likens to traces left by a skier descending treacherous slopes of freshly fallen powder snow-covered mountains, adorning them with ephemeral drawings until infinity.
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EXHIBITIONS
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_ EXPOSITION 100% PAPER, SECOND EDITION _ 11 TO 14 JANUARY 2024,
GALERIE JOSEPH PARIS _ 5 RUE BAILLY_ 75003 PARIS _ FRANCE
PRESENTED BY HOPARE , ORGANIZED BY URBAN SIGNATURE ​
<< OPUS JE" / "OPUS RENCONTRE" / "OPUS UNION" / "OPUS VIE" / "OPUS FAMILLE"/' 'OPUS SECRET''
PLASTER & ACRYLIC ON COTON PAPER WITHOUT ACIDE 500G
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_FOCUS ART FAIR _ 18 TO 21 MAY 2023
NEW-YORK, TIMES - SQUARE, CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL _ 535 28TH _ NEW YORK _USA
​PRESENTED BY CURATOR HONGLEE
<< OPUS ODINY C & OPUS ODINY F >> 2024_40X30CM _ ACRYLIC & INK ON CANVAS
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_EXPOSITION 100% PAPER, FIRST EDITION _ 10 TO 12 JANUARY 2023,
GALERIE JOSEPH PARIS _ 66 RUE CHARLOT_ 75003 PARIS _ FRANCE
PRESENTED BY HOPARE , ORGANIZED BY URBAN SIGNATURE ​
<< OPUS RHBC >> 2023 _24X32 CM
PLASTER & ACRYLIC ON COTON PAPER WITHOUT ACIDE 500G
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_VENTE SOLIDAIRE POUR L’EGALITE DES CHANCES _ 17 DECEMBER 2022,
SORBONNE NOUVELLE, 13 RUE DE SANTEUIL _ 75005 PARIS _ FRANCE
PRESENTED BY ASSOCIATION TROUVE TA VOIX
​<< OPUS CNNXN >> 2022 , << OPUS FLURS >> 2022, << OPUS NG >> 2022
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_EXPOSITION DES CENTCINQUANTE _ 01 TO 04 DECEMBER 2022,
LES TROIS BAUDETS – MEZZANINE, 64 BOULEVARD DE CLICHY _ 75018 PARIS
PRESENTED BY ROSLUCIE EVENTS & JOURNAL LE CHAT NOIR​
<< OPUS LRN >> 2022 _55X38 CM _ PLASTER & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
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_EXPOSITION « LES 300 » _ 21 OCTOBER 2022 TO 15 JANUARY 2023
GALERIE ECHOMUSEE, 21 RUE CAVE _ 75018 PARIS _ FRANCE
<< OPUS DSTNC >> 2022 _ 30X30 CM _ PLASTER & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
<< OPUS RDV >> 2022 _30X30 CM _ PLASTER & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
_FOCUS ART FAIR BOOM _ 01 TO 04 SEPTEMBER 2022
LE CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE _ 99 RUE DE RIVOLI _ 75001 PARIS _FRANCE
​PRESENTED BY CURATOR HONGLEE
<< OPUS R >> 2022 _195X97 CM _ ACRYLIC & INK ON CANVAS
_DE.MO _ 9 TO 24 SEPTEMBER 2021​
FIRST DIGITAL GALLERY IN MILANO_ MADS GALLERY _ ITALY
​<< OPUS PLS >> 2021 _ 115X75 CM _ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
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ABOUT CANVAS FOR CARROUSSEL DU LOUVRE << OPUS R >> 2022
195X97 CM _ ACRYLIC & INK ON CANVAS
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Opus R is a large-scale symphony of white and black lines, a puzzle piece from Camille's past that narrates her future life.
Hailing from the Alps, her youth was cradled by the mountains, hence the "arcs" of her lines and infinite helical ellipses.
Each line is a reminiscence of her descents in the alpine powder, parallel lines, traces of her passage in the snow intersecting with other grooves formed by speed, captured by ice crystals.
Her painting is a descent where all the weight of her body is drawn downstream, the sun symbolized as it departs from the top left corner of the painting shining just above her head. Her body, intoxicated by speed, hurtles down the slope without knowing where it leads.
Within this painting one can hear the skis' scraping on the mountain's surface, feel the wind's song in ears reddened by cold, experience the body freed from gravity through gliding – all within a striking setting where humanity is nothing but modesty.
The repetition of lines symbolizes multiple reminiscences of her descents that mentally free her from urban chaos.
Through painting, Camille not only visualizes these moments of freedom but also depicts their power in two stages. Initially, she draws "her" mountain by tracing with her fingers in white acrylic paint on its pristine coat.
This first stage encapsulates an essential element for her canvas.
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Camille traces furrows with her hands, much like you would take snow in your palms to feel the sting of cold running through the nerves of your hand.
She then lets her scarred mountain rest to clear her path. The paint dries.
Camille returns with black lines that emerge like a challenge thrown by a black slope.
It descends sharply in every corner of the canvas as if reliving every landscape sped through in the Alps of her childhood.
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Her canvas offers two views of the panorama: one from above the mountain which has retained all the scars of its ski resort, and another view is that of her body with head and shoulders visible facing forward, illuminated by a "UFO-like" sun in the sky.
The furrows formed by her lines evoke tree trunks cut for trail development; her canvas is an ode to nature sacrificed by winter tourism.
The viewer, a "specter-actor" in her canvas, is free to be the bird in the sky witnessing their tracks forming rapidly on the slopes.
Camille incorporates them differently into an immersive camera, just above her shoulder, positioned as a guardian angel.
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Each linear descent carries the risk of a fatal fall; white and black symbolize this proximity between life and death, birth and mourning for our desires to experience what we love.
Her lines seek beautiful imperfection to allow nature's reign over its opposite.
The mountain is at home here; we are only a microscopic link in its chain.
We travel within it without leaving lasting traces.
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In her paintings, the artist elevates all her travels on her icy skin through reminiscence, acknowledging that even on her scale, should I stumble from a tangent to a parallel, I shall hold nothing against it.
Speed is thus both attractive and immoral.
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Camille is an extreme painter who sacrifices colors to reach the essential point: her journeys in the snow seen from above.
The size of the painting echoes this sense of scale experienced by the man miniaturized by any mountain range.
The adrenaline of speed does not make us forget our human condition in this extreme nature.
With each line she paints, Camille travels back in time while descending a slope; thus, the canvas becomes a sanctuary cradled by the mountain's arms.
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Engulfed by nostalgia, the wind carries away her tears, transforming them into snowflakes that melt the slopes where Camille relives these intense and joyful moments endlessly.
Thus, her brushes glide on her canvases like poles in powder snow, as if never wanting to bid "Farewell" to the mountains.
© 2022 BY CAMILLE FOURNIER, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IMPRINT