Nathalie Talec, a French artist and head of workshop at the École nation-ale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, presents a work of art at the frontiers of science and the imagination guided by Inuit shamanism ‘seeing through closed eyes’, discovering the world in a form of enlightenment.

Various motifs that have featured con-tinuously in the artist’s work for more than thirty years, like the explorer figure tackling unknown territories, or the cold, an abstract and intangible state, which would otherwise be impossible to illus-trate, emerge within the context of aut-ofiction and metaphor, exploration, not of reality, but its representation in the cerebral space.

Nathalie Talec calls upon all mediums such as illustration, painting, video, music, performance and monumental instal-lations to give shape to abstractions, visualise perceptions, depict the intan-gible, portray subjective and aesthetic

artist website:

mechanics that animate people in their environment, feelings, travels and thinking.

An array of sources of inspiration, drawn from scientific and mytholog-ical literature, travel writing and sci-ence fiction, as well as from the work of rock, sitcoms and networks, provide Nathalie Talec with a broad spectrum to construct the sensory haven where new dialogues between the work of art and visitors continually emerge.