LAETITIA lesaffre
"I am a lacquer painter and photographer. My work explores reflection. I take the picture of the subject's reflection in my canvas. I aim to dissolve the frontier between painting and photography. All my photographs are natural; free of processing or retouching. The grain and the fuzziness reveal the subject's intimate nature. My pictures become impressionable; they give up the drawing line to keep only the essence of the character. Time is freezing, as if an image was emerging from a dream you couldn't quite remember when or where it happened. The mirror symbolizes purity of the soul in Asia; it enables self-contemplation. The subject's reflection works to create its own image, a self-contemplation that allows the character to look within. I'm here to capture this very particular moment when the character lets one's thoughts run idle. Distorted reflection- like the one emerging from the darkness - is the picture that remains a draft. It's the one that leaves an impression on the vitality of the subject. As a painter, I attempt to capture the spirit and essence of my subjects by shining light and reflection."
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SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2019 Market Art + Design, Sturgis Art Gallery, Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY
2019 Reflets, Galerie Hegoa, Paris, France
2019 DE-SOL-ES, enfance exilée, Salon d’honneur - Mairie du 20e, Paris, France
2019 Solo Exhibition, Lauréate Objectif Femmes, Mairie du 9eme, Paris, France
2019 Group Exhibition, Galerie Youn, Montréal, Canada
2019 Fotofever, Melting Art Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Art Traffic, Biarritz, France
2019 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Eleven Rennes & La Baule, France
2018 Artcite, Group Exhibition, Fontenay-sous-bois, France
2018 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Art Traffic, Biarritz, France
2018 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Eleven Rennes & La Baule, France
2017 Solo Exhibition, Chateau de Val au Grès, Normandy, France
2016 Solo Exhibition, BNP Mécénat, Paris, France
2016 Affordable Art Fair Bruxelles, Noorforart Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie au-delà des apparences, Annecy, France
2014 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie au-delà des apparences, Annecy, France
2014 Exhibition, Galerie De Arte, Nantes, France
2014 Exhibition, Galerie Olivia Ganancia, Paris, France
2013 Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Flo, Aigues-Mortes, France
2013 Galerie Jouan Gondoin, St. Germain-en-Laye, France
2013 Group Exhibition, Mac, Paris, France
2012 Solo Exhibition, Galerie 178, Paris
2012 Galerie Travelling Art, The Hague, Netherlands
