Louise Sartor's paintings with their classic techniques, like oil, gouache or silverpoint are made on found mass-market packagings which emphasise sculptural aspect of the work as the shape of the found support determines the composition. At a time when the 'Instagrammable' has overtaken the reproductible, Louise Sartor brings to mind the reduced, standardised format of images on smartphones and tablets. In her paintings, they have also influenced the treatment of colours, which she now saturates with neither artifice nor any tenderness towards nature or portraits. Louise Sartor finds splendour and new paths in the decadent, as her wilting subjects — still-lives with fading flowers, landscapes with interchanging atmoshepric effects, portraits of friends — capture the wearing of time.
Read MoreSartor's recent solo and duo exhibitions include PAGE (NY), Cocotte, Treignac (FR), Treignac Project (FR), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Le Consortium, Dijon (FR), and Bel Ami, Los Angeles (US).
Her work was shown in Museo Picasso Málaga (ES), MOCO, Montpellier (FR), Mucem, Marseille (FR), Palais de Tokyo Pavillion, Gwangju Biennale (KR), FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (FR), MAMCO, Geneva (CH), Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR), Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), MASC - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Les Sables d'Olonne (FR), Basel Social Club (CH), X Museum, Beijing (CN), Tonus, Paris (FR), amongst others.
Born in 1988, Louise Sartor lives and works in Paris, France.
Her work is in public collections, such as Musée d'art moderne et contemporain - MAMCO (CH), FRAC Poitou-Charentes (FR), FRAC Bourgogne (FR) and FRAC Corse (FR).
Text courtesy Crèvecoeur.
