Circé work part from a familiarity with women’s bodies and feminine forms and quickly evolve into a space of possibilities and transformations. Her research delves deeply into identity and societal stories that highlight the struggle most human face for equality and acceptance in the post-modern world.
French raised in Italy, she started showcasing her work in Mexico City in 2021.
Dissolvenze
Circé’s paintings part from a familiarity with women’s bodies and feminine forms and quickly evolve into a space of possibility and transformation. Her works delve deeply into societal stories that highlight the struggle women face for equality in the post-modern world and showcase an ambiguity that spells happiness and death, light and oblivion. Her strokes grip the viewer to stand at the confused edge between serenity and chaos and invite them to consider themselves within the context of the painting. From a young age, she has crafted this artistic haven where she can connect with her own roots and feelings and touch the myriad of artists that have shaped and deeply influenced her trajectory and expression. She finds in Carrington, Debord, Poniatowska, Varda, De André, among others, kindred spirits and timeless teachers of a process of inner exploration and heightened sensitivity to her own surroundings and historical context. Circé works with anything she has to hand. Her art is made up of a combination of acrylic paint, charcoal, crayon, and pastels, which she applies to just as broad a range of mediums, particularly tracing paper for the series Dissolvenze.
Words from Rebecca Zissmann, for Pen Magazine This series has been firstly exhibited in Madre Cafe in May 2021
60 cm x 90 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2020
Ciudad de Mexico
50 cm x 70 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2021
Ciudad de Mexico
Blue Big Vanishing Triology 1
60 cm x 80 cm
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
2021
Ciudad de Mexico
Delirium
This series is a process of inhabiting pain.
Our frame of reference is lost when we deny our pain.
The daily parade carries but a shell of ourselves; a
smile dressed with empty eyes.
The few moments of presence are few and far between and
they are marked by powerful contorsions of the body. One
by one, these bodily forms conjure a reaction. Within
their happenings, we can cry again, we can curse, we can
despair and shed some of the madness.
Our pain becomes the frame of reference and we get our
legs back. We can stand and power through.
Each painting in the series is a map to a place within.
A map to a place the viewer can recognize as well,
because from these forms, we are cast into the solitude
of our being. Solitude so deep, it is a human condition
and because of this, through acceptance of it we can
find communion.
The Delirium Series was firstly Exhibited in Madre Café
during Art Week 2022
150 cm x 100 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2021
Ciudad de Mexico
Digressioni
“Toda identidad es una cárcel“ -M. Foucault Cuerpos carentes de identidad por su ausencia de necesidad, la fuerza expresiva clara, simple e íntima y el erotismo en la línea y la forma son solo algunas de las evocaciones resultado del diálogo personal de la artista con el trazo, sus modelos, la figura, los medios, el color y por ende, con ella misma. Circé refleja en su obra sus propias experiencias, emociones y curiosidades en torno a las relaciones humanas de la misma manera de cómo las vive … espontánea , libre y auténtica. La narrativa visual de Circé está ligada a su espíritu poético y creativo. Ha requerido, y por su naturaleza requerirá, de constantes ejercicios de entendimiento práctico, figurativo y experiencial como parte de su búsqueda de una mejor comprensión de sí misma como de su entorno. Su exploración práctica la ha llevado a un cambio de contexto y a una inmersión a lo desconocido en un país de la América Insular donde el entorno cultural influyó enormemente en su diálogo artístico y creativo por las nuevas narrativas y expresiones en su trabajo plástico, pero sobre todo, en el técnico al incorporar la gráfica como una posibilidad en su trabajo durante su estancia en el taller de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro en La Habana, Cuba. Words from Sebastian Isla, film director and curator This Series has been exhibited in Mexico City in February 2023
Despair Series
30 cm x 42 cm x 9
Screen printing
2022
La Habana
200 cm x 150 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2022
La Habana
En attendant Godot
30 cm x 20 cm
Sérigraphie Artisanale
Acrylic on paper
2022
La Habana
Esercizi
This series is a heart to heart with the artist’s
roots. Coming back to her home city, to her family, to
her old loves, she makes the parallel in her paintings;
revisiting old classics from Moore, Rembrandt, Matisse
(…), reinventing them and making them her own
As she delves into this forgotten land and this spazio
temporale that is no longer hers, her yearning for
reconnection evolves into a newfound presence and
understanding that allow her to inhabit it anew,
reinventing it and herself
The interplay between past and present, process and
being is felt throughout the series. Although time
seems to escape us, the artist invites us to feel its
materialisation within us and to understand memories
not as information in the past, but as the ever
evolving substrate over which we build our actions and
ourselves.
Words from Jaime McGregor, physician writer and friend
This series has been exhibited in Rome in December 2022
150 cm x 100 cm
Acrylic and pigments on paper
2022
Roma
The sacrifice
150 cm x 100 cm
Acrylic and pigments on paper
2022
Roma
The sacrifice
LIVE PAINTING
300 cm x 200 cm
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
2022
Roma
Façades
As she takes down her bodies from the canvas to the floor, giving them volume, the artist keeps flirting with the idea of bodies being just an envelope, a vessel. The bodies are still androgynes and deformed, they all come the same color, to be modeled, inhabited, and filled, with one’s self, dreams, passions – eventually. Words from Jaime McGregor, physician writer and friend This piece has been exhibited as an installation in Mexico City during Art Week in February 2024
Sulpture
Alambre and papier maché
Ciudad de México, January 2024