Artist bio
Belgian-born, Paris-based multidisciplinary artist Audrey Guttman is renowned for her multidisciplinary works that hold up a mirror to the workings of inner life. Her elaborate body of work keenly explores our fractured experiences of self, employing collage, cyanotype, photography, installation and poetry to show the tension between outer selves and our lived experience. Entwining fragments to translate the ineffable, the ambiguous or the subconscious, the artist invites viewers to reexamine the world around them.
Drawing from her rigorous background in art history, literature, and philosophy, Guttman transforms found materials and vintage imagery into richly layered compositions that operate as visual poetry. Her historically-informed practice investigates the unique paradoxes of presence and absence, exploring the fertile space between universal themes and intimate confessions. Her work reveals hidden worlds, making the invisible visible through a delicate interplay of light, time, and form—each piece an offering to memory.
From her carte blanche exhibition at Christie's Paris celebrating the Surrealist centenary to shows at Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels and Saint Laurent, Guttman's distinctive approach has established her as a significant voice in contemporary art. Her conceptual rigor combined with technical versatility invites viewers into a realm where fragments of reality transform into reflections of our collective psyche—a unique labyrinth that doesn't lead to a center with answers, but to an ever-widening field of meaningful questions.
Currently on view
Group shows:
Nous n’irons plus au bois, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin,
Per Grazia Ricevuta, a cura di Alberto Mattia Martini, Tesoro di San Gennaro, Napoli
Upcoming: Enigma, three artist show, Heldenreizer, Munich