A graduate of the Villa Arson (Nice) in 2007, Charlotte Pringuey Cessac obtained a Master II in architectural heritage the following year.
A graduate of the Villa Arson (Nice) in 2007, Charlotte Pringuey Cessac obtained a Master II in architectural heritage the following year. Her protean practice, carried out with researchers, archaeologists and craftspeople, places the real within a reflection on memory, trace and narrative. Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac's work is characterised by a strong link between subject and medium. Like the first woman who, according to Pliny the Elder, is said to have painted, she uses charcoal – or, more precisely, because these drawings are otherwise large – a heap of charcoal sticks, charcoal. The earliest traces of human activity, if not artistic, at least representative of mankind, are mural paintings. With tree drawings on the wall, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac inscribes herself in the longest tradition of painting, whether real, as at Lascaux, or imagined, as is probably that of Pliny
