Eleonore
Merdrignac

Éléonore Merdrignac is a self-taught French painter living and working in Paris. Drawing serves as her preparatory ground, from which she builds a pictorial universe she calls la démonstrie, where figures emerge as unstable and transformative presences rather than fixed characters or symbols.

Her paintings build on a personal mythology assembled from fragments of art history, baroque compositions, classical postures, allegorical bodies, which she absorbs and dissolves rather than quotes. Stripped of their original narratives, these borrowed figures resurface as ambiguous presences: neither gods nor characters, but residues of image-memory caught mid-transformation. This is where la démonstrie takes shape — not as a style, but as a process of dismantling and reconstructing inherited forms.