In addition to being a visual artist, Isabelle is also a psychologist, writer and gallery owner. Taking on these different roles also influences her creative process and style, especially her research on dreams and the unconscious. The artist, born in 1960, began her career studying modern literature and clinical psychology, while also studying drawing and painting. She then opened her own contemporary art gallery in Paris in 2011 at 11 La Ralentie, allowing her to exhibit her work regularly.
Isabelle Floch is a visual artist, psychoanalyst, gallerist and author.
Isabelle Floch believes that her source of artistic inspiration is a combination of her passion for "mixing" universes, and familiar images from her childhood dreams. Psychologist and artist Isabelle shares: "Dreaming is an unconscious process. We never know what we will dream about. We can go through dreams with many surprises, through interesting experiences. The material from dreams is the core of my source of artistic inspiration, because this material is always rotating and moving. However, there will be a moment of pause in my mind, for me to lay the foundation for my work."
Dream images are the consistent material in the artist's series of works.
Her original style stems from her ability to combine many different techniques including collage, painting, pastel, posca, pencil, retouched photos and digital. She creates mixed media, composite images.
The artist shared that the first base layer comes from the photos she took herself. Then, she uses "Fine Art Paper Hahnemühle" (a specialized fine art paper) to print those images. Next, Isabelle will use many different tools such as markers, acrylic, colored pencils to travel into her own imagination and create unique works. The technique of layering different materials also makes the paintings that Isabelle creates more visual depth and multi-layered meaning.
The work "How can I stop you" is made with many layers of different materials.
Isabelle Floch’s work pushes boundaries by using innovative techniques. She combines elements from unexpected perspectives, creating new symbols. Viewers can expect to find “an image that carries the dreams of children, and more than that, the deepest secrets behind it.”
Isabelle's work pushes boundaries with cutting-edge techniques.
In her solo exhibition titled "Metamorphic Vision", Isabelle's creations are inspired by Vietnamese culture and people. She admires the resilience, dynamism, determination, love of life and desire to move forward of the Vietnamese people. Isabelle's feelings for the Vietnamese people are conveyed through her delicate, feminine, sensitive and, inevitably, mysterious and seductive paintings.
Isabelle Floch's artistic perspective lies in the mystery and creativity in nature combined with the transformation of vision. The series of paintings in the Metamorphic Vision exhibition gives the audience the opportunity to immerse themselves in nostalgic memories, following the flow of emotions to reach the "universes" hidden deep in the paintings.
The exhibition is on display at 11:11 Espace until November 6.
Some works in Metamorphic Vision by Isabelle Floch:
Isabelle offers works that are "multi-layered" in both material and content.
Miss Bunny 1, 60x80 cm, Pigment Ink on Fine Art Paper Hahnemühle Torchon.
Passion, 50x70 cm, Pigment Ink on Fine Art Paper Hahnemühle Torchon.
"The Look", 60x80 cm, Pigment Ink on Fine Art Paper Hahnemühle Torchon.
Uncanny, 40x50cm, Pigment Ink on Fine Art Paper Hahnemühle Torchon.
