Agnès Vitani lives and works in Nice. Originating in painting, her work establishes a symbiosis between the real and abstraction according to a principle of…
Agnès Vitani lives and works in Nice. Originating in painting, her work establishes a symbiosis between the real and abstraction according to a principle of overflow and contamination; she retrieves and recycles the traces of her painter's gesture and fragments of the banal into pieces and installations. She has notably shown “À bras-le-corps”, with Béatrice Lussol, at Galerie Eva Vautier (Nice, 2023) and “Les Renouées” at Passage de l’art (Marseille, 2020). Agnès Vitani takes, consumes, recomposes, stretches and reshapes elements and materials which, within the plot of her approaches, cover identities otherwise presumed. Consumed, matter is rehabilitated, lived, trivialised or marginalised. These adjectives are not in competition, depending on the point of view we take on it. I