Valerie Nogier

Valerie Nogier is a contemporary French artist known for her innovative use of recycled materials to create her works. She collects objects and old magazines, viewing them as witnesses of the past, and transforms them to tell new stories. Embracing the philosophy that nothing should be discarded, Nogier recovers and repurposes materials, turning them into the foundation of her art.

As a technician and explorer of materials, Nogier constructs her canvases with successive layers of acrylic, medium, pigments, and transferred papers. She deliberately rubs and disintegrates these layers to enhance the effect of degradation, revealing only the essential elements and allowing the unexpected to emerge. Her process involves sticking and peeling off materials to uncover improbable mixtures and fragments of images and typography, embracing the magic and element of chance inherent in transfers.

Nogier is captivated by the beauty of eroded surfaces and the emotional depth of faces marked by time. Her work navigates the space between figurative and abstract, guided by her imagination without a predetermined destination. Inspired by Picasso's assertion, “I don’t look, I find,” Nogier enjoys the perpetual search, hoping not to find too quickly, and cherishing the journey of artistic discovery.

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