Tiphaine Scott de Martinville

Elsewhere - 2022 - digital photography
Elsewhere - 2022 - digital photography

 

I'm a Paris-based artist born in 1973 in southern France. Initially pursuing a career as a lawyer, I was profoundly influenced by the emancipatory power of art during the first Louise Bourgeois' retrospective in Paris. This experience led me to shift toward art, eventually resuming formal studies at Paris 8 University and the School of Fine Arts TALM-Le Mans, where I graduated with the highest honors in 2024.

 

My multidisciplinary practice transforms blank spaces into transitional places where I build knowledge systems for a desired horizon, blending three elements: visual arts, playgrounds and language spaces. My approach result in a diverse body of work seeking inner mechanisms to naviguate a hypothetical elsewhere, including initiatory and allegorical paintings, portraits of becoming minds, tender maps, transitional logograms, dice and speech rolls. These elements combine to create devices I regularly activate in collaboration with the public.

  

From painting to mediation, I interweave text and imagesoften bordering on the esotericto craft uncanny spaces where internal movements find external expressions of freedom through embodied symbols and representations, hypnotic protocols, perplexing rules and exploratory maieutics that challenge conditioned thoughts. With rapide, spontaneous and intense gestures, I keep exploring paths of desire for an elsewhere, navigating obsessions and detours to approach, confront and turn around it.