Natalie Lamotte

I am a painter living and working in Vitry-sur-Seine. For several years, I have chosen to present a more engaged pictorial vision that affirms femininity, exploring its sensitivity and its relationship to intimacy and the world. Through painting, I aim to express emotion, feeling, and sensitivity to the organic, mineral, and vegetal world that resides in every being, especially women. My work speaks of femininity and the entirety of women's bodies. It explores forms, techniques, and performances that suggest the female body and its social context in intimacy, physical space, history, and society. The choice of red has imposed itself on me as the obvious color of vital force, representing the strength of women who have fought for their emancipation and freedom. Red serves as a universal, timeless, and symbolic link that unites us all. The compositions are opaque or transparent, strong or light, heavy or airy, evoking organic forms that are sometimes sensual, vegetal, or mineral—living. This is a painting that speaks of energy, breath, strength, contemplation, resilience, and the incredible power of girls, women, sisters, mothers: our sisterhood.