Born into a family active in fashion, Emmanuelle grew up surrounded by models and photographers, a world which far from intimidating her, allowed her to play with representation very early on.
Over the years, she appropriated this mode of expression through the photography of her loved ones and more particularly her sister.
Self-portraiture allows her to go even further in introspection, notably with his Stigmata series. This 2017 series allows her to question his relationship to the body, to representation and the marks that are inscribed there. We don’t necessarily see them at first glance, the artist symbolizes them by playing with the Polaroid film, scratching, scarifying like a second skin.
It is after this game of mutation that a new series will emerge: Muses.
The painter has his model, the photographer too, she even multiplies them. In this way Emmanuelle Bousquet, thanks to the appearance of different women, questions the various aspects of femininity, becoming an explorer of this multiplicity of facets. The game is an art, especially in the chosen location, an old directoire theater, a sort of erotic boudoir whose specters still seem to inhabit the place.
Finally, the artist reveals for the first time part of her latest creation entitled Sens obscures. Women are always magnified by light, placed on a pedestal, the body is sculptural. Is this to magnify women? Allow it to achieve immortality like works of art, such as the reference to the three graces? Around them other women appear, blurred, ghosts of the past, passing creatures, they reinforce the timelessness of the main muses while questioning us from a distance about our dreams and our history.
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