Nadée : Information

Born in France in 1969, lives and works in Paris. Nadée explores left traces, movement, memory. Her universe where doubt and hope, the visible and the immaterial intermix, opens a door to spirituality. She prefers natural materials: linen or jute canvases, sand, ink pigments. Her paintings are at the edge of abstraction, influenced by her travels and the lights of North-Africa where she lived several years. The paintings of Nadée collect the fresh traces of an old exile which seems to be close to mythical Babylon. Verticality is one of the constants in her staged compositions, primarily mineral, where strange processions of long-shaped and wedge-shaped silhouettes are manifesting. These anonymous watchers from the outside proceed with the same minerality, the same textures like the earth from which they came, and like the walls between which they saunter. “Her aesthetic sensitivity is indeed obvious, but beyond that we guess a kind of metaphysical intuition of human presence, a deep empathy for the human condition against these endless spaces that always scare us. Nadée’s art is somewhere else; it lies in abstract memories, “feelings” rather than “pictures”, of these Middle East cities, bathed in this so peculiar light that one calls “la blanche”. It lies in the primer-less sensuality of her canvases without frame nor varnish, fragile and strong; eminently “present,” in a word. Nadée likes this universe’s vastness, endless skies, horizonless seas, borderless deserts, that she conceptualizes as endless sources of liberty more than an excuse for anguish. Nadée has developed in an impressive way, in just a few years, her art, her skill and inspiration. No doubt that this emerging artist, who’s talent matches her sensitivity and modesty, is on her way to a brilliant career.” (Marie DEPARIS, Art critic, February 2006)