Aurélie Salavert

Aurélie Salavert (born in Avignon, France, 1966) is a French artist living in Brussels, Belgium. 
==Early life and education==
She graduated from L'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Marseille, France in 1990.Aurelie Salavert - CV. https://www.mepaintsme.com/usr/library/documents/main/aurelie-salavert-cv.pdf In 1992, she received a grant from the DRAC Provence-Aples-Côte d'Azur - Ministry of Culture, and her art is held by several public collections in France, including the Fonds National d'art Contemporain, the Fonds Régional d'art Contemporain, and the Angers Museum Arts Library. 
Her work, which has been described as shapeshifting, enigmatic, and incommensurable, synthesizes a folk art style with elements of spiritualism, naturalist botanical studies, and assemblage. These designs appear to the artist in the form of mediumistic visions.
==Work==
Chelsea Hogue and Bill Nace's small-press monograph on Salavert, Victoire or Something like that describes the artist as "unclassifiable and modest," nothing that her "poetic, spiritual, and feminist commitment takes the place of political positioning in the world." The text continues:"The axis of her work is the drawing that she never ceases to reinvent through the use of different techniques and styles, from figuration to abstraction, and which sometimes extends to painting, to objects and environments, extensions in the space of her initial work. Her untitled and undated works express the rejection of the idea of chronology in time and prefer the continuity of cyclical renewal."As the last sentence notes, Salavert chooses not to date her works. Her paintings instead pull upon "associative momentum," combining "flashbacks of the artist's memory into a new universe full of wonders," which often escapes the bounds of language. Translating her psychic meditations into observable, iconographic artworks, the artist considers the work atemporal and outside a chronological hierarchy, rejecting the idea of series anchored in time to privilege the continuity of cyclical renewal. 
In 2009, Stéphane Calais wrote an accompaniment for "Une expédition" at the Fondation Ricard, Paris:"Aurélie Salavert is looking for something, at times something different. To our joy she often finds something, and when she doesn’t, we’re happy being lost with her. Her work is an exploration. A long path of simplicity that never approaches naivety. You have to be precise when tracing this path, and so yellow must be YELLOW, a child must be a CHILD, etc. The various scenes, the abstractions, the collages, everything is very real along the route. The only thing that matters is whether or not we believe in this path. ​ The nature of our belief in the images that Aurélie Salavert has marked out here and there."This description illustrates the mysterious aura of simplicity that characterizes Salavert's visionary compositions. Her influences are broad and varied, including geometric meditations on color by Josef Albers, playful and childlike illustrations by Maurice Sendak and Edward Gorey, folk and self-taught artists like Bill Traylor, and spiritualistic abstractions by Hilma af Klint and Anna Kassel. Art critics have also connected her work to earlier art historical movements like Dada, Surrealism, and art brut.
==Selected Recent Exhibitions==
* Sushan's hands, curated by Paolo Gallio, Studio Archive Project, 2022
* After Dark, mepaintsme, 2022
* Landscape from memory, Alhuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2021
* Known / Unknowns, curated by mepaintsme, Studio Archive Project, 2021
* France America, Médiathèque communautaire Gustave Ansart, Trith-Saint-Léger, Commissaire Gauthier Leroy, France, 2020
* What?, Alice Mogabgab Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
* Une Expédition, curated by Stéphane Calais, the grand galleries of the Aitre Saint Maclou, School of Fine Arts Rouen, France, 2009
==Residencies==
* Centre Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 2020
* Earthenware internship at Denys Fine, Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, 1994
* Workshop Germinations 7, Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Czech Republic, 1992
Category:French people
Category:1966 births
Category:French artists