kintsugi (Flore) (2018) Painting by Settimia Taroux

Settimia Taroux paints in acrylic or watercolor portraits, bodies, anatomy, which mingle with recycled materials related to the feminine: tights and thread. Figurative painting and abstract material effects merge in layers that are both carnal and symbolic.

Born in 1982 in Brittany, Settimia Taroux developed an early interest in painting and more particularly in portraiture.

It was during his artistic studies that two favorite practices emerged: figurative painting centered on the human, most often on a scale of 1, with the recurrence of geometric and floral motifs.

Her second practice was born from research on the idea of "skin". After a few tries, she adopted female tights as the only material for her plastic research. Her exploration led her to the series of "pictorial seams", 40 cm side modules (on the scale of the sticky object, and therefore on the scale of the body). The frame stripped of its canvas has become a framework, and the fabric stretched over it has been transformed into muscle, tendon, epidermis, making these modules a metaphor for the human body.

After a few years, his two practices met and merged. The paint mingles with the stretched, perforated, darned fabric. The needle hurts or heals, it creates a moult forever attached to its owner. The seam-suture refers to the physical, psychic wounds and scars that constitute each human being. Abstraction and figuration mix, skin-material and skin-representation merge. The strata mingle and blur the vision, making the model both close and elusive. Fake tomies refer to the idea of mortality and fragility. They are this grain that anchors the artist and the spectator in the here and now, the roughness and the imperfections of the human condition, which mix the fascination for appearances and the irrepressible presence of the carnal.

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