Discover the contemporary work of Carrie Joseph VouTeau

Carrie Joseph Vouteau is a contemporary painter of French-Caribbean origin, active on several online platforms. Born in Paris to an oriental mother and a Caribbean father, she grew up between Algiers and Savoy, immersing herself in literature and the arts from her childhood. After a stint at the Beaux-Arts and an experience as a bookseller, she returned to painting and now lives from her art as an independent artist and author.

She is particularly known for Albert the pink cat, a character she first painted before bringing him to life in through a series of children's books. Her imagination also unfolds in a fantastic fresco in three volumes intended for readers aged 7 to 77, translated into English and Italian. At the same time, she explores deeper themes in striking stories such as "Les Maux Passants", "Battery Weak", "Qui à ne me suive" and is also part of a literary reflection on consolation by continuing the dialogue initiated by Stig Dagerman. Where "Our need for consolation is impossible to satisfy" expressed an unsatisfied quest, she provides a more clear-cut answer in "Our need for consolation was impossible to satisfy", thus affirming a more radical and personal vision of this existential theme.

Her cultural mix is reflected in her works, where she creates characters with diverse origins, inspired by manga and superheroes, the Maghreb and the Orient, with varied skin colors and melancholic or astonished expressions facing the universe.
 

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: "La vie devant soi", "Les fleurs du mal", "1984", are all texts that come to life on her canvases, merging the power of words with the magic of colors.