Anne-Marie Schneider

Born in 1962 in Chauny (France), she lives in Paris.

Anne-Marie Schneider's drawings are more reactions than illustrations. The result of an almost daily, automatic, highly-strung artistic practice, her drawing carries the charge of whatever has touched or struck her. Politics, society, intimacy, sexuality, and relationships with others are thus reduced to their essentials, to an image of the chemistry of human relations. Her charcoal marks, sometimes set off with colour, trace a link between the myriad layers of reality and those, no less complex, of perception and of imagination. Her subjects are decontextualised, as if cut out of their surroundings, in tightly framed, isolated scenes. Nothing remains of the image but the subjective gesture, stripped of all unnecessary ornament, of everything superfluous. Her works express the simultaneous precision and intangibility of the process, the fugitive crystallisation that is the creation of mental images.

At the Espace Croix-Baragnon, Schneider is presenting an original series of works created especially for this exhibition. Her work is a response to the vertiginous chaos, offered to us in exchange, no doubt, for her own withdrawal.