Ségolène Brossette Galerie

"When I work, I don't think about what I'm going to draw in advance. These are things that are going to be triggered from a whole collection of images that I have, that I spread out and that I associate. These images will at some point take shape and be written on the paper. One could compare this, a little, to the work of the surrealists in the exquisite corpse. "

Nathalie Tacheau

Nathalie is inspired by photos that she collects and that don't belong to her, that have both a familiar and disturbing side.

How not to think of "Das Unheimiche" of Freud translated into French by "L'inquiétante étrangeté" by Marie Bonaparte in 1933 or more recently "L'étrange familier" by François Roustang.

In Nathalie's works, I see the ghosts of our own history appearing and regularly coming to haunt us. What has been repressed but returns uninvited. A psychic ghost created from a secret, an unspoken andthat will never have a name. A secret carried in the grave that is whispered to the children who are still alive. In Nathalie's drawings, the same character comes back with the same shape, in different universes. We find him in a forest, on a branch. We hear the song of birds and the bellowing of a deer. We try to follow him as in a dream. A dream that repeats itself every night, of which only snippets remain: a strong feeling but whose scenario remains unclear.

Ségolène Brossette

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