Mylène Mai
Mylène Mai was born in France in 1988. With a degree in human sciences, her works offer a personal analysis of the link between aesthetics and emotion. Away from conventional codes and preoccupations, she rejects the conventional, new, "perfect" and soulless "beauty" disseminated by the media. A keen observer, she draws her inspiration from worn-out natural materials, plants and living things. Mylène Mai works with simple materials, plaster and natural pigments. She puts her works to the test of time, choosing for each one a moment of particular wear and tear that tells its own story. A unique story in which the incidental, the unexpected and the surprising are both inevitable and indispensable. It highlights aging. It sublimates the passage of time by revealing its richness and uniqueness, magnifying our greatest fear.
In his work, the hand of man fades into the background, giving way to the simple beauties of nature and time. Technicality is forgotten, only emotion remains. Through the grooves of her sculpted paintings, she speaks to us of the first traces of Man, of the archaic and the unconscious. The chiseling suggests a journey between the infinitely large and the infinitely small, taking us on a journey between contemplation and introspection. Faced with his abstract works, we are absorbed and seduced by the imaginary that we project onto them, becoming attached to what we think we recognize and reassures us.
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