Audrey Guttman is a Belgian-born multidisciplinary artist, working between Paris and Brussels.
Her visual poetics hold up a mirror to inner life, dissecting the images and accounts that uphold fundamentally ambiguous narratives and fantasies. She "offers an elaborate body of work that keenly situates images as a figurative site of intimacy and spectacle, ultimately dissecting the mechanisms of beauty and façade (…) wielding prints, collage, mixed media and sculpture to challenge our fractured performances of self.” Her “boldly multidisciplinary practice is buoyed by the vocabulary of collage, a medley of mediums, and in-depth research that offer her a vast web of visual and theoretical references (…) epitomizing her aim to entwine fragments and forge meaning in the process of making and unmaking.” (Leila Renee)
In 2024, three solo exhibitions will be devoted to her, at Galerie Mighela Shama in Geneva, a carte blanche at Christie's in Paris to mark the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, and at Galerie Ketabi Bourdet in association with Galerie 1900-2000 in Paris. In 2023, Audrey Guttman was selected to be a resident at the Chapelle Saint-Antoine in Náxos. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Brussels, Ketabi Projects in Paris, Hangar Photo Art Center in Brussels, Il Salviatino and Futura Gallery in Italy. She has taken part in numerous group shows and international fairs. Her publications include “Doll House Blues” (Galerie Mighela Shama, 2024), "I'll be your mirror" (Ketabi Projects, 2022), "Where the years do not turn the pages" (Gli Ori, 2021), "Au-delà du visage" (Futura Gallery, 2021), and "Making Arrangements" (self-published, 2020), in which she deploys poetry to extend and echo her pictorial work.
Audrey holds master’s degrees in research in art history and literature from École des Hautes Études (EHESS) Paris, and in communication and political science from SciencesPo Paris.