Icaros (2023) Drawing by Vanessa Escalante

After fifteen years working with Aboriginal clans in Australia as part of her work as a filmmaker, Vanessa is invited to film sacred ceremonies for women and men. She discovers with them body painting with ocher. For these indigenous peoples, Painting is an act, not the production of an object or a form destined to remain. Once the image is placed on the skin or the canvas, the graphic trace makes visible a "spiritual essence" and the artist's mission is accomplished. There is always a great respect for the form that is born. Vanessa discovers the pointillist method and adapts this logic of a space 'out of time' on the canvas. His commitment to the defense of indigenous peoples and their lands around the world inspires him with visions of nature and the inner world. The importance of reusing materials, canvases and enhancing natural supports and tools is part of his vision of everything living, recyclable and updatable. Making films and painting are sacred acts for the artist to bring together the invisible and the visible.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1978
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists