Série Palimpsestes - Florence (2023) Photography by Aleph Uteza Lysimaque

Aleph Uteza Lysimaque is a contemporary artist born in 1993 in Nice. A graduate of the Institute of Peace and Development Law, and trained at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, she lives and works between the Nice hinterland and Italy. Her encounter with the artistic community of Saint-Paul-de-Vence was decisive and became the catalyst for an approach that has continued to evolve ever since. Aleph integrates transdisciplinary thinking and a conceptual approach into her work, nourishing an approach that puts reality and its representations into tension, at the intersection between fragmentation and continuity.

The Anthropocene is one of the major axes of his work. The project "Anthropos, archaeology of a developing species", initiated as a long-term project, adopts a survey methodology borrowed from the human and social sciences to understand the problem of the Anthropocene. An attempt to approach reality in its complexity to deconstruct and (re)think the concepts of civilizations, progress, and the human condition through the prism of environmental upheavals.

The diaphanous, borrowed from the world of light and assimilated to the domain of thought, is used in his work as a method, a revealer opening the way to an ontology of the interval, this ambiguity within an infinitely clear and infinitely dark environment, this mid-place subject to a perpetual movement by which the visible emerges and withdraws. A posture facing reality where the photographic medium, detached from its role of simple representation, tends to fill the abyss that separates the reign of appearance and that of being.

In contrast to an approach that favors coherence and uniqueness, his work refuses to be part of a fixed, linear or closed homogeneity. By claiming discontinuity, it reflects a vision intrinsically linked to the contemporary world, where the explosion of forms translates the multiplicity of reality and the rejection of a single or definitive view. This vision, which is given in fragments, questions the expectations imposed by the structures of civilization: those of a world that demands meaning, unity, and coherence to better absorb it. Interruption then becomes a critical gesture that suspends, deconstructs, and touches on what cannot be reduced to a totality.

In instability, the fragment is a tension that is never completely resolved, and perhaps this is where a facet of the human condition is at play: a series of disjointed moments, of partial experiences that refuse to resolve themselves into a reassuring whole.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1993
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists