Atsoupé works confront the apparent paradox between childhood and violence in a unique way. Her plastic work made of faceless dolls, and multiple portraits on paper, seems to summon spirits, to establish a permanence between the past and the future.
The dolls of Atsoupé are strange sculptures, bodies that are rather feminine, reconstituted by multiple elements such as wrought iron, fabric, wool, plastic, leather, bolts and even bells. They are regularly adorned with naive floral motifs, as if a child’s hand had awakened these faded figures, witnesses of Atsoupé’s youth. As for the portraits, these anonymous hybrid figures, they permeate the papers in surprising and controlled palettes. As if magnified, they come to life in Prussian blues, carmine reds, jade greens that overlap and mingle in virtuoso washes. The artist deploys great expressive power in these mysterious facxzCes, sometimes riddled with many holes or stitched together with threads or ribbons, they scrutinize our world with deep melancholy.
Atsoupe is represented by Galerie Anne de Villepoix