Fine, floral, fresh, and fragile...
A gentle and subtle blossoming. A surge of vegetal life and eroticism upon supports that are as unexpected as they are obvious—hydraulic system, dissection machines, electrical installations.
Each canvas by Joséphine de Saint Seine contains within itself a fertile and discreet ground: that of evocation and poetry born from science. That of the immaterial emerging from the tangible world. Words and objects—so concrete, so everyday—such as piping or heating systems, take on a new dimension here, now sublimated by the colors and lines of these vegetal forms, often almost animal-like, which invade the surface of the canvas.
Through her works, the artist does not simply speak of "nature" or "chemistry" from a singular perspective, but rather through a plural and hybrid vision. Writing and image become intrinsically linked elements. One reveals the other, just as the latter feeds on the former in this remarkable process of "blossoming". A blossoming of form, of idea, of living and visual matter, but also the viewer's perception. One must indeed be both eager and patient to fully savor these works—taking the time to discover them, to let the form emerge before our eyes and mature in the light of the backgrounds it both conceals and reveals.
The sublime and fragile flowers are then imbued with a sensual and delicious dimension. Sometimes languid and exposed, sometimes mysterious and impenetrable, they are always marked by the preciousness of the gesture and the finesse of the plastic work, evoking the techniques of calligraphy and engraving. Delicating yet piercing, these works touch us and insinuate themselves within us. They leave us imbued with a heightened, almost tactile emotion, to which we can surrender—allowing ourselves, in turn, to dive into a poetic vision of the world.
