Discover the contemporary work of Elodie Bedon

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I was born in 1990 in a small village in the Loire, in 2014 I obtained a master's degree in cultural mediation.

In 2015, I moved to Naples and decided, as if by necessity, to devote a large part of my time to painting. A self-taught painter, I copied the great masters to learn.

In 2016 I came to settle in Arles where I sold copies of works of art, while starting to working on my own creations. In December 2018 I showed my work for the first time during a group exhibition with my two sisters, poet and videographer. Subsequently I participated in several Art festivals (Tombé.es des nu.es in Arles, Serres Lez'Arts... ).

In 2019 I returned to live in my native region, in Sail-sous-Couzan, between rivers, forests and mountains to set up my workshop and devote myself to creation and energy care.

In 2020 I participated in the creation of a socio-cultural association where I still give drawing and visual arts lessons today.

In 2023, after having followed training in leading artistic mediation workshops, I intervene in the field of mental and psychological disabilities.

www.elodiebedon.com

I am inspired by a universe of sensations more than visions or thoughts.

Sensations that surpass or transcend matter and space. The place no longer exists, only the limits of the support remain. Flesh and bones no longer exist, only the softness of the skin and the warmth of vital energy remain. I contextualize my images as little as possible, then incomplete, it is the viewer who, by his projection, completes the painting and tells his own story.

I do not think about the painting before starting it, I imagine an image, blurred but strong, linked to a feeling that I have to transcribe on the canvas in a short time, with a sure gesture. I cohabit with the canvas for a certain time and make it evolve until it reaches maturity. This can take two days or a month. My main theme, my obsession, is the nude, the relationship to the body, mine and that of the Other, a presence in the world through the senses, the circulation and the exchange of energies. Different bodies, in action, at different periods of life... Sometimes classic, sometimes terrifying, sometimes erotic, it is the diversity of representations of the sensations and emotions of the body that animates me. Since 2021 I have been exploring other materials: wire to reinforce the structure of the line in search of the essential, lightness and movement; clay to model faces, marked by age, emotions, grimaces...

A sensual experience...