Édith Dufaux
Born in 1959, lives and works in Montreuil.
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The visual work of Édith Dufaux is made up of four major categories: photography, monotype print, drawing, and painting.
In her photography, Édith Dufaux uses boxes that serve as both a container and a building element, a minimal unit enabling it to enter into a gradual process of architectural arrangement. With the model, she constructs sites that blur scale and perception. This then allows her to conduct an exploration of physicality in her work.
At the same time, she continues to work with printing using the monotype technique, which she sees as inheriting the power of photographic light and shadow. Through short stories, monotypes allow her to develop a work on the illusionary relationship between the body, space, and memory. Furthermore, Édith Dufaux creates paintings and large scale drawings based on small-scale “photographic notes,” always drawing on installations created inside his “optical box.”
The differences in techniques used by the artist allow her to maintain a dialogue between small-scale models and the human scale. This circular process develops and extends its ideas in an uninterrupted exchange between photography, drawing, monotype, and painting.
"L’espace est un doute : il faut sans cesse le marquer, le désigner ; il n’est jamais à moi, il ne m’est jamais donné, il faut que j’en fasse la conquête."
Georges Perec