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Born in 1979 in Brittany, Emilie Bitauld studied art at the Beaux Arts de Quimper and at the Sorbonne before pursuing her studies in the fields of cultural project engineering, heritage and development. She worked in France and abroad before devoting herself full time to her artistic practice and has had a studio in Montmartre since 2011. She presents at Vingt vins d’art a selection of recent independent paintings or from the series Big bang theories and Big bang discovery.

The pictorial adventure that occupies her nowadays starts during a cyclone on the Reunion Island. Invited to the artists' studio, she found herself confronted with a reality which, on the Indian Ocean, sparkles with a rare power.

This quest for reality through the discovery of elsewhere is at the heart of her practice. You can also feel here the influence of a residence in Switzerland. Formerly an expert in intangible heritage for UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture, it is a reality on the border of the invisible and the spiritual that she seeks, elevating into abstraction any realistic emergence in her practice. She appreciates that the viewer tells her what he imagines. On this power of suggestion, she quotes Richter when he explains that the viewer associates an abstract canvas with a familiar image "because everything is rooted in the world, everything is connected in some way to experience. Evoking the approach of this iconic artist, she invites us to go beyond of what can be seen.