Mathilde
Hostein

After navigating through fashion design and fine art, I found my challenge and joy in oil painting.

My art work is a way to search where I fit in the world and understand how the world unfolds inside meas well as a way to interrogate others on how they find their own path through this questioning.

Photographies, drawings, paintings are the tools in this research. I first produce photos as attempts to capture fleeting moments where reality  had in my eyes a certain aesthetic or narrative spark. They are visual post-its, an archive of things seen, awaiting to be reused, associated and recomposed to create new significations, emotions, and aesthetic. It often means reproducing them in paintings, making them clash and melt together in the physical one-of-a-kind manifestations paintings are.

They become clues, resonating together, in a collections of attempts at trying to decipher the invisible links weaving a mind, its body and the reality. In an intimate way, my art is advocating for putting value on a more sensory, emotional, memory-charged and  mysterious experience of the world.