Vis-à-Vis des genres

Margot Burident prepares a thesis in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Art History at the Picardie Jules Verne University. She lives and works in Amiens.
This young woman puts in question the notion of autoportrait as well in painting as in photography. Her research gathers around the tradition and the mutation of the autoportrait in a contemporary perspective. It remains a far-reaching interrogation ensnaring our occidental inheritance of the pictures of “genre”, and the technical alterations brought by most of the digital artforms.

The cycle of paintings she initiated in 2003 brings out a face to face with the viewer, where the stare of painted faces tries to disorientate the spectator. Margot Burident’s approach can be situated in this avoiding of a narrative representation, beside her desire of getting rid of a personal metaphorical symbolism in order to only leave a figure yelling its simplicity of painted human being.
In an other registry, the photographs proposed by this artist turn away from those fixed paintings in favour of a fugitive mise-en-scene, where a haunting character appears, taking hold of a room, a wall, a cupboard… Still fleeing from narrative purposes, the individual moves around and adapts to the locations, playing with the shapes and textures.

This artistic development could seem paradoxical due to the differences between photography and painting, however, that’s where the process brings over some interesting variations, still with this interrogation of the idea of artistic genre, which can be related to how we us different artistic media.

Papier peint

Photography

30 x 40 cm

2005