- Biography -
"...My sculptures have accompanied me through life.
They help me prepare its important phases, sometimes in anticipating through their creation; or, being some of my mirrors in a waking dream.
I let my hands operate without any attempt to direct them. Only then I regard ¡ I am often intrigued by the result. Sometimes I am pleased with my sculptures, other times not. At times, I have to wait a few years to " discover " them and understand their meaning.
The use of colour is also an unplanned venture for me. I mix enamel and patina to obtain the effects from matter ranging from shine to matt. By successive touches and layers, I intuitively construct the colours on the forms, allowing surprises and discoveries to take place.
Finally, once they are completed, I look at my sculptures in order to fully immerse myself in them. They are a chapter lived or soon to be lived..."
Violaine Boisivon expresses herself, lives through sculpture.
Born from a primordial expression, free of doubt or hesitation, each of her sculptures represents a moment of her being.
An immutable trace of her existence, imprints of her life...
None of them are anecdotal, all of them appear to be decisive; truly, it is worth suggesting they are what we are, and what they are we will be!
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