About the artist
Born in France in 1992, Garance Matton lives and works in Paris.
Her paintings are constructed like collages. Figures appear on the surface of the canvas in strange attitudes, their presence sometimes suggested only by the silhouette of a face. They interweave in colorful structures where space unfolds in a play of superimposed shapes and planes.
The game, an element dear to Garance Matton: scrabble, arrowwords, puzzles, is an almost structural component of her imagination. It's what enables her to assemble pictorial elements from different worlds, but also to create a dialogue between different ways of painting. Garance Matton creates paintings with multiple languages, her recomposed images are filled with artistic quotations: Piero della Francesca, Uccello and are subtly mixed with objects from the artist's daily life: comb, clock or elements collected on the internet. They all cohabit in the painting, like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, parts of a house.
Sarah Maison