Artist - Aurore Émaille - visual arts - arts plastiques

Aurore Émaille is a multi-disciplinary artist and film-maker living in La Brigue in the Alpes-Maritimes. She grew up in the mountains at the gateway to the Mercantour and now lives in the Roya valley on the Italian border.
Her work is rooted in the territory she inhabits. She likes to question the notion of 'milieu' and the link we maintain with what surrounds us. Plant and animal life inhabit her universe, as do the invisible, the sensitive and the imaginary. Through contemplation and dreaming, she attaches importance to unlit areas, to what is suggested without being shown, and to what is felt. She seeks to stimulate our imagination in the blurred, the obscure, the off-screen and the complementary nature of image, sound and words. Storytelling and ancestral knowledge feed her narratives and her passion for transmission. She is keen to link the process to the result, and questions the making of images and imaginary worlds by making her creations tangible and manipulable. Her visual universe is inspired by pre-cinema, and is imbued with an artisanal approach. Using drawing, embroidery, video, shadow theater, puppetry, paper sculpture, masks and grigri, she explores a wide range of possible forms, preserving a magical relationship with the world and with life.

Through her creations and artistic interventions, she invites us to sharpen our eyes and our feelings, to imagine and invent other ways of relating to places, stories and other living beings.