Discover the contemporary work of Sandrine Paillard

In 1969 I was born and raised in Paris and its close suburbs, an environment of urban colors with its lights and shadows. I approached the city and was interested in the people who frequented it. From 1985 to 1989 I took evening classes at the Boulle school in sketching, sight drawing and modeling. Through sketching and modeling, I developed a more incisive view of life. From 1989 to 1996 I traveled throughout Europe, London, Dublin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cologne, Venice and then to Canada where I stayed for six months, honing my taste for new curiosities.

In 1996, I moved to the south of France, near Toulon, and began developing my artistic work.

Drawing and painting are my favorite fields; they're where I settle down and find myself in complete serenity.

Connections with other visual artists encouraged me to continue my painting journey. I set up associations, including a visual arts federation.

For fifteen years, I exhibited and developed various projects in this region through solo and group exhibitions in private and municipal galleries.

In 2011, I returned to Paris. I set up my studio in the 20th arrondissement and regularly participate in events at the Ateliers de Ménilmontant, dance exhibitions, studio open houses, etc.

I've been holding group and solo exhibitions for thirty years. I often surround myself with musicians and dancers who work in conjunction with my painting and who create settings for the openings.

Since 2020, I've lived in the Nantes region and continue to participate in personal projects as well as within artistic collectives.

Through a journey of paintings, drawings, and suspended objects, I take the viewer into an intimate universe, where numerous faces, figures, and bodies intersect in their solitude and fragmentation.

I attempt to grasp the representation of the face and body, which originate in reality, in a way that questions their representation in the face of one's own intimacy.

The objective of my approach is to inspire a new perspective on others through their difference and singularity. avoiding the pitfalls of stereotypes and voyeurism

The mirror I hold up questions otherness, whether in the portrait that hides our differences to better reveal our similarities, or in the representation of the body under the influence of Narcissus, who discovers himself neither spontaneous nor free.

Through a journey of paintings, drawings, and suspended objects, I take the viewer into an intimate universe, where Many faces, figures, and bodies intersect in their solitude and fragmentation.

I attempt to grasp the representation of the face and body, which are rooted in reality, in a way that questions their representation in the face of one's own intimacy.

The objective of my approach is to inspire a new perspective on others through their difference and singularity, while avoiding the pitfalls of stereotypes and voyeurism.

The mirror I hold up questions otherness. whether in the portrait that hides our differences to better reveal our similarities or in the representation of the body under the influence of Narcissus who discovers himself neither spontaneous nor free.