Mademoiselle Maurice

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**Mademoiselle Maurice**, pseudonym of **Marie Saudin**, born in Annemasse on Template:Date, is a French visual artist. She is known for her works made from origami, her rainbow colors and her monumental installations, but also practices painting and other mixed media.

She explores themes such as human nature, its relationship to the environment, ecology. His ephemeral works essentially consist of paper and threads, generally in the colors of the rainbow, thus referring to the Rainbow Warrior of Greenpeace, to the Rainbow Nation -en-ciel, to the flag for peace, which corresponds to the LGBT movement.

Associated with the street-art movement, the artist exhibits freely in public spaces around the world.

## Biography

Marie Saudin grew up in Haute-Savoie. A graduate in interior architecture at the Ecole Supérieure d'Architecture Intérieure in Lyon, she worked for an architectural firm in Geneva before starting her career in urban art in 2009, under the name of Mademoiselle Maurice.

In 2010, she moved to Japan for various artistic projects but she returned hastily in Template:Date- because of the nuclear accident of Fukushima . The disaster triggered the artist's activism antinuclear movement and more generally its current artivism . In 2012, she created her first paper origami installation in the street of Paris, revealing the word "NO" and drawing inspiration from the legend of the thousand cranes.

The artist is now represented by the Mathgoth gallery, located rue Hélène-Brion, in the Template:13th arrondissement of Paris. This gallery also represents other artists from the street-art movement, such as Jace, Isaac Cordal and Jef Aérosol.

Mademoiselle Maurice divides her working time between Paris and a studio in Marseille, located in the Belle-de-Mai district. She is very active on social media.

## Styling

Marie Saudin's subjects are essentially based on the art of folding called origami.
His works, inspired by this popular art of paper, created in China, two thousand years ago, then developed in Japan, are stuck on walls of concrete, cement and often associated with a extensive color palette evoking the rainbow .

His creations, heterogeneous and unexpected, develop randomly on the facades of buildings, on the street, in opposition to the Template:Citation and subject to the eyes of passers-by.

The artist combines the art of lace, embroidery with the ancestral art of origami in a personal way. According to the Swiss contemporary art site *Widewalls*, Mademoiselle Maurice uses five different models to create her works: the bird, the grue, the flower, the boat and the wind which are elements used when designing origami .

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## Career

### Years 2011 and 2012

One of Mademoiselle Maurice's first installations in the urban space, in Paris, in 2012.
Mademoiselle Maurice produced a scenography of Template:Unit during a Japanese festival organized in Paris in 2011. The following year, she was selected for an artistic installation in the United Kingdom. That same year, the British architecture site, *Bettery Magazine*, organized a meeting between Mademoiselle Maurice and the Handisport Athlete Aimee Mullins, which resulted in the creation of the ephemeral work "Take one, Give one ».

### Year 2013

In February, on the occasion of waste reduction week, the company Louis Vuitton offers an awareness campaign in its offices to remind people of the importance of saving and recycling paper. Mademoiselle Maurice will then create an origami portrait of Louis Vuitton from paper recovered from waste paper baskets. The following month, the artist took over the large space under the rotunda of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, with and for the brand Post-it.

In August, Mademoiselle Maurice creates an installation on a thirty-meter long wall of a hospital in Singapore, with the aim of sharing a message of sensitivity to organ donation and blood donation. She collaborated the following month with the artist Sarah Applebaum and together created an installation between San Francisco and Oakland, for Vice Magazine. The same month, she invests the Athens Olympic Stadium with a monumental work on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of Action Aid.

In October, she installs a work called in the street in Kosice in Slovakia as part of the White Nights (*Biela noc* in Slovak).

### Year 2014

Intervention Mademoiselle Maurice on a wall in Malmö, Sweden during the Artscape festival in 2014
At the very beginning of the year, she works on the M.U.R, rue Oberkampf in Paris. In May, the artist took part in the first edition of the Artscape festival, in Malmö in Sweden.

In August of the same year, she took part in the Emergence festival in Naxos in Sicily. The following month, she participated in the *Hiyeaf Festival* in Haikou in China, then in October, she created an installation as part of a collective exhibition at the Molitor swimming pool. During the month of December, she created an installation at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

### Year 2015

In February, Mademoiselle Maurice installs a work in Paris for the program "Blue Peter" of the BBC, then in March, she presents with Art Azoï an installation at the Parc of La Villette. During the month of May, she installs a suspension at the National Museum of Singapore.

From Template:Date- to Template:Date, the artist is exhibiting at the Carrousel du Louvre in the collective exhibition "Design makes rain and beautiful weather” on the occasion of the Paris Design Week event.

During the same period, on the occasion of the release of the new logo of the search engine Google, she participated in the event by creating an installation in the old airport of Berlin "Tempelhof". She will then create a monumental installation on the Château de la Mogère in Montpellier and then went to Mexico for a photo shoot and the creation of an anamorphosis from origami on a wall. The generated visual is used to highlight the Nexus 9 tablet.

For the end-of-year celebrations, the Ministry of Culture and Communication has entrusted its reception areas to the Valois sites and Bons-Enfants to the visual artist and Art Azoï.

### Year 2016

Psychotherapy Center of Ain, revisited by Mademoiselle Maurice in 2016
In March, Mademoiselle Maurice exhibited at the Parisian urban art gallery Mathgoth, then from Template:Date, associated with the "Culture NoMad" device, the Psychotherapeutic Center of Ain, located in Bourg-en-Bresse, she imagines a monumental installation, ephemeral fresco, on the facade of the chapel of the center. This work will be inspired by him on the basis of origami made by hundreds of participants .

The same year, the artist collaborated with the creator Issey Miyake to imagine a visual on the perfume L'eau d'Issey "City Blossom" as well as installations in the designer's boutiques (New York, Tokyo, London and Paris). She will then exhibit two pieces as part of the collective exhibition "A moment in time" at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

The Maryland railway station of the Great Eastern Main Line, located in the London Borough of Newham, benefits from the action of "Miss Maurice" who that year created a fresco sixty-five meters long. This is made up of multiple earthenware tiles painted in a series of different colors.

In June, Mademoiselle Maurice realizes her largest installation in Paris and entitled "Cycles lunaires". This is the largest artistic fresco created in inner Paris, with a dimension of approximately Template:Unit approximately. The building measuring 140 meters long by 15 meters high. Due to weather conditions incompatible with an installation made from paper, the artist will invent what she calls "Maurigamis", a sort of stencils which takes up the aesthetics of origami but reproduces in paint. The "Maurigs"friends" will complete the first paper origami already installed on the wall of the city Paul Bourget in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

In October, the artist leaves for Brazil with the artist SNEZ (forming their duo Emès crew) for several art installations and socio-cultural. She participated during this same period in the event "Francs-Colleurs" with the collective of artists 9ème Concept. The "Francs Colleurs" project brings together 46 artists to work around a common graphic form, the drop, and to edit stickers to stick them in small or giant format, under the form of street installations.

### Year 2017

During this period, she collaborated with WWF and Tiger Beer as part of the awareness campaign to help combat the illegal trade in tigers.

## Publishing

* *Living Origamisms*, monograph, published on Template:Date-, Edition Criteria, Collection Opus Délits.

## External links

* Template:Authority
* Personal website
* Interview of the artist on France Culture

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Assistance

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