Discover the contemporary work of Carrie VouTeau

Born in Paris to a Lebanese mother and a Caribbean father, Carrie spent her childhood between the excitement of Algiers, where her parents were aid workers, and the hostile atmosphere of Savoy. Her early immersion in literature and the arts was the prelude to a life devoted to creativity. After a stint at the Beaux-Arts, she swapped her brushes for books as a bookseller, before returning to painting, thus becoming an independent artist living from her art.

Artistic approach

Her mixed race has transcended borders to be reflected in her characters and her artistic macrocosm. "I combine everything!" she declares with passion. She delights in the mixture, creating beings that do not exist but could exist. Her passion is expressed through Mangas, Super Heroes, or Women, Men with immense and sad eyes displaying melancholic smiles, donkeys, Cats, Dogs.

Her characters oscillate between the unreal and the real, a duality also present in her collages. The union of different nations comes to life in a Comics or Manga style. Through her painting, she rebels against the injustice of the world, using this medium as her only way to denounce.

Her particularity lies in her literary interpretation through painting: "Life Ahead", "The Flowers of Evil", "1984", are all texts that come to life on her canvases, merging the power of words with the magic of colors.