Leslie Amine was born in France in 1981. She lives and works in Grenoble. She graduated from the Regional School of Fine Arts of Valence in 2004. She practices painting and drawing and photography serves as a basis for setting up her worlds. Of Franco-Beninese origin, she is interested in questions of crossbreeding, hybridity and identity. Her work is built at the rhythm of her travels around the world; it is on other continents that she most often draws her inspiration. "Landscapes in the electric softness of tinted neon serve as a background to the scenes painted by Leslie Amine. The tropical vegetation made of ferns and palms evokes the artifice of a jungle carefully reconstructed for the setting of a film where animal and human figures are the actors of intriguing representations... It is a flow of colors and shapes, a fluid circulation where the fragmented mobility of today's world is seen between reality and virtuality through a vision. Leslie Amine has already exhibited her work extensively, including at Centre d'art contemporain de Lacoux, Claire Corcia Gallery, Biennale de Dak'art Off and at Collection Bandjoun Station curated by Barthélémy Toguo.
