Coline
Rohart

French visual artist based in Marseille, Coline Rohart paints intimate scenes. Today, she focuses on the liberation of women’s bodies, movement, light & transparency. She enjoys experimenting with different techniques, including painting, resin, tufting, and audiovisual media, while playing with energetic brushstrokes and vibrant colors. Like dreams piling up, the different layers reveal more than they obstruct. She was awarded with Visa Off Young Talent Prize and Samsung Launching People's 2nd prize. 

Her work aims to create a mythology where one can share new narratives. She rekindles myths, legends, and summons figures that dance on the canvas. With her paintings, by combining strength and fragility, she hopes to evoke an emotion. 

Her grandfather Roger Perrier gave me my first painting lessons in his studio. After completing a dual master's degree at Sciences Po and the University Paris Dauphine, she managed creative marketing projects. She learnt oil painting technique with international painters Nushka and values with Sarah Sedwick. During the pandemic, she started posting my paintings on Instagram. 

From the pressures exerted on the figure of the contemporary woman, she attempts a plastic rewriting in which the mechanisms of domination are rethought, diverted to weaken our pre-established ideological constructions. She works from protocols involving participatory actions, art distribution organizations and social networks. She paints pretty pictures that try to camouflage deeper scenes and create new narratives.

“I explore a theme with research, readings, iconography and sensations. Some resonate in me and I paint that resonance on the canvas. I pose myself or close friends and family. Painting puts me in an almost meditative state. I like my paintings to reveal the process of making, to be never complete so the eye of the spectator connects the final dots in its own way.  I focus on light and transparency. I feel like I'm hiding clues in my work, concealing deeper scenes. I enjoy dancing on the edge between fragility and strength. Between energetic brushstrokes and liquid layers. I want my paintings to be intimate, vulnerable yet strong. Like a powerful female gaze.”