Apolline
Regent
Born in 2001 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Apolline Regent’s practice is based on assembly, accident, and the maintenance of a constant energy of making. Between humour and tenderness, her paintings become experimental spaces where time, invented narratives, and lived experiences intersect.
Everything unfolds through a particular lens, highlighting the conditions under which forms take shape on the pictorial surface, or rather their way of coming into being through ever shifting appearances. In Apolline Regent’s practice, nothing seems fully predetermined: forms emerge not without hesitations, their shapeshifting, their restlessness, as if they were testing their own conditions of existence.
The artist adopts a posture of listening, staying as close as possible to what emerges. She works with nascent forms, at their level, allowing them to become what they want to be. The works then unfold as present shapes which are in a constant process of materialising, close to characters stepping onto a stage. They carry their intentions, their fragilities, and a certain softness.
Apolline Regent’s painting is constructed in the very movement of its making, in a continuity of gestures where accident, deviation, or the unexpected are not ruptures but driving forces of creation.
— Marilou Thirache
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