Mathilde Denize

Mathilde Denize’s works, recognizable by their fragmentation, systematic three-dimensionality and pastel hues, carry within them a plot, a language that only the artist seems able to decode.

Mathilde Denize graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013 and is now represented by Galerie Perrotin. She cuts, tears and sews compositions using fragments of her own work. Her paintings, installations, ceramics and sculptures are embodied, almost moving.

The artist has joined the Villa Medici in 2020. The residency enabled her to push back the limits of the techniques and formats she was using, bringing to life a series of costumes made from old canvases, which were staged in a film afterward.

Nothing seems to be formed ex nihilo, but is rather the fruit of a gestation process, a myriad of memories and relics collected and intertwined.