Géraldine
Chansard

In a wide range of mediums - including sculpture, installation, painting and drawing-Géraldine Chansard explores the human condition and its relationship with the world. Influence by prehistoric parietal art, Michel Angelo, Brueghel and Giuseppe Penone, Fabienne Verdier, Chansard's earliest works includes still life paintings, a rendition of Rembrandt's Self Portrait, wooden sculpture and mixed media works. However, she soon moved towards populating her canvases with emotionally evocative, childlike drawing outlined with a piece of wood driven into a surface of vibrant color.

To Chansard, authentic reality is a reality from the inside. Going back to the essence, she adopts a childlike style employing the solemn mark of a child's drawing unaffected by false impressions of reality. In search for authenticity, Chansard sheds self-evident shapes visible in reality and any detail that might have trapped them in the confines of a particular story. Unmasked, accessible and insouciant, her cartoonish figure excites curiosity, seducing the observer to understand reality without the restraint of art's staid conventions. Eschewing traditional painting technique, Chansard concentrates her energies, intelligence and entire education on creating a reality where the rules that respect the world of appearances disappear.

She paints a world of immediately conveying instant sensations and unmediated expressions of creativity. As she explains: «My art express a subjective truth of my relationship with the world. I want my work to reflect my state of being, to help me achieve harmony and agree with my way of life even if it means not conforming with the art market demands."

Born in 1971 in Toury, France, Géraldine Chansard studied Visual Arts at Université Paris I-Saint Charles, and has been living in UAE since 2012. Winner of France Monde Culture and Fine art festival Ras al Khaimah awards, she has participed in solo and collective exhibitions at Fine Art Festival, Ras al Khaimah(2015), Alliances Française, Dubai(2014), Cartoon Art Gallery, Dubai(2013), Atelier Loeser-Casati, France(2010-2011) and Maison Matisse, France(2011).

by Ala Zainalabidean