Frédérique Tristant

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Frédérique Tristant is a French artist born in Vannes in 1971, who lives and works in Brittany in Morbihan.
In gallery since 2018, Frédérique TRISTANT is both a specialist in semiotics, holder of a doctorate from the University of Bordeaux, and a painter whose training has been validated by a CAPES.
This dual training permeates her work, offering beyond its graphic aspect, a reflection on the nature of representation resulting from the university course on the image of bodies through the tools of reproduction (photographs, videos) and investigation scientific (radiology, scanner, MRI etc.).
From this reflection, she seeks the limit, the tension between the physical reality of skins and bodies and the dreamlike vision offered by representation: subtle recreation of this reality in a two-dimensional space materialized by a few pictorial layers finer than the epidermis.
She explains:
“As in my research on the first photographic atlas of dermatology by Dr. Hardy and Montmeja in 1868, I retouch each portrait with watercolor and acrylic paint. I appropriate a physiognomy that I reshape and remake as I wish. I refine my masks which tell women’s stories like the diary of our melancholy, our absences and our sensuality”
“My work revisits the female portrait from the angle of a carnal envelope which brings memories to the surface of the skin. »
The wrinkles and folds of the peel paper anchor my work in the genre of Vanities, making a clear shift from photographic testimony to the pictorial.
The patterns (flowers, birds, stripes, toile de Jouy, liberty, gingham, etc.) allow me to move from a real person photographed to a fictional character and to refuse the simple decorative aspect. The motif is a Proust madeleine which makes my work nostalgic and my personal memories become universal.

EXHIBITIONS
2025
Her – Collective exhibition as part of Women’s Day – Lumiere Contemporary Art Gallery – Limassol Cyprus
2024
Les Poissons rouges – Personal exhibition – Signatures Gallery – Sainte Marine
All the people – Collective exhibition – Galerie Eugène – Laval
Young girls in flowers – Solo show – Galerie Artima – Paris 3e
Sublime – Collective exhibition – Galerie Eugène – Laval
Group exhibition – Ars Essentia Gallery – Beaune
Lumières du jour – Collective exhibition – Galerie Eugène – Laval
2023
Affordable Art Fair – London – Galerie Artima
The ones and the others – Collective exhibition – Galerie Eugène – Laval
Antiques Fair – Galerie Eugène – Château Gontier sur Mayenne

TRAINING
2009
Capes d’Arts Plastiques – University of Haute-Bretagne Rennes II
2002Doctorate in visual semiotics – Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux I

PUBLICATIONS:
2010 L ‘image in science, Coll. Champs Visuels, L’Harmattan
2008 The multimedia game – A sensitive journey – Coll. Champs Visuels, L’Harmattan
2005 The animal film – Rhetorics of a genre of scientific film –
1950-2000, Coll. Visual Fields, L’Harmattan