Edmée Vouaux

 

 

 

Photo credits: Pauline Vanden Neste & Héloïse Brunet

For the past three years, I have been developing a hybrid practice combining painting, sculpture, and digital imaging, based on details from everyday life: reflections, glints, disturbed surfaces. These visual phenomena become the triggers for a universe where objects, diverted from their function, slide into fiction.

I alter materials and blur references: clay imitates metal, wood imitates plastic, paint imitates a mineral surface. My forms remain ambiguous, between abstraction and figuration, familiar yet elusive.

My sculptures seem to come from a changing landscape, altered fragments or artificial residues. Surface plays a central role: it catches the eye, distracts, disturbs. What matters is not to represent, but to evoke feelings through texture, brilliance, and ambivalence.

Each piece occupies an in-between space: softness and tension, 2D and 3D, stability and deformation. I explore these porous areas where utopia and dystopia, sensuality and threat, brilliance and opacity coexist.