ANNE PINTURIER VISUAL ARTIST

"With paper... Like everyone else, my figurines took the path of childhood before asserting their age... Born when I was running an art workshop, they were first bundled-up children, grumpy or laughing, then teenagers lost in clothes that were too big for them. As I modelled them and let my thoughts wander, a young girl and then a young woman appeared. And others wanted to join them! Men got involved too. That was 15 years ago. When modelling and working with paper, I enjoy staging the position of the body: what we are when we read, listen, watch, walk... live. The search for paper and the dressing of the figurines is a bit like the morning questioning of each of us, our heads turned towards the window, scrutinising the weather, and our hands reaching towards the wardrobe, already guided by the mood of the day, its freedoms or its constraints! Before taking the first pair of pliers to cut the first piece of wire, I like to come up with a word or phrase that will ‘define’ the figurine: fundamental research, minimum subsistence, Revolution, cherished freedom... This word becomes the name at the end of the work, almost a first name. For the past two years, I have also been creating ‘paper’ paintings.’ Anne Pinturier