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Anaïs Morisset Desmond aka Ut arley is a collage artist and illustrator based in France.
She mainly practices paper collage but over the years, she has also been working with a blend of various different techniques, using everything she can get her hands on: paper from magazines, packaging and fabrics. She also uses painting, embroidery, plants as well as digital tools.
Both inspired and interested in literature, fashion, cinema, ancient and contemporary mythologies, she creates fantasy worlds fueled by symbolism by addressing many societal and environmental topics.
She often explores our bodies, our emotions and their consequences in terms of the way we perceive them. The recurring themes of her work are the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems which are at the heart of her reflections and her work. Many of her collages can be interpreted as a tribute to the power of nature but also to women's strength and resilience and the daily battles they lead to exist and affirm themselves within a very patriarchal society.
Anaïs Morisset Desmond est une artiste collagiste et illustratrice qui vit et travaille en France.
Elle pratique principalement le collage papier mais au fil des années elle a expérimenté un mélange de techniques en utilisant tout ce qu’elle a sous la main : des papiers de magazines, d’emballages en passant par du tissu.
Elle y intègre de la peinture, de la broderie, des végétaux et la manipulation digitale.
Intéressée par la littérature, la mode, l’indicible et les mythologies anciennes et contemporaines, elle crée des mondes fantastiques remplis de symbolismes en abordant de nombreux sujets sociétaux et environnementaux.
On y retrouve souvent les explorations du corps, des émotions et de leurs conséquences sur la perception. Les thématiques récurrentes de son travail sont les préservations des biodiversités et des écosystèmes qui sont au cœur de ses réflexions et de son travail.
Son travail est une ode à la puissance de la nature
exhibitions
expositions2023 - coming soon
Group Show, L’Âge d’or, Crypt Gallery, London, U.K (may)
Group Show, Galerie Gaba, Paris, France (march-april)
Group Show, Elles et la ville rose, Illustrafemmes, Toulouse, France
2022
Solo show, Collages, Les Crèmes, Paris, France
Group Show, Rencontres artistiques, Solarium, Marseille, France
2021
Group Show, Hic est sanguis meus, Galleria GAIA, Cosenza, Italy
2020
Group Show, Eternal, Boomer Gallery, London, U.K
Solo Show, Les Invisibles, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France projet et exposition créée avec le photographe Martin Straub
2019
Solo Show, Pieces of Ut, La Manufacture de la Chanson, Paris, France
2018
Solo Show, That Western inside our heads, O’Gib, Montreuil, France
2017
Solo Show, Slice of Life, Galerie Le36, Arles, France
Solo Show, Collagemaniac, CC Café, Paris, France
Solo Show, Extraction, Les Petites Gouttes, Paris, France
Group Show, Hic est sanguis meus, La Cappela, Paris, France
2016
Solo Show, Dans le Coeur des Créatures, L’Heure Bleue, Paris, France
Solo Show, Collages, Festival Champ Libre, St Junien, France
2015
Solo show, Extraction, Galerie Le36, Arles, France
Group show, Hic est sanguis meus, Galerie Rialto Roma, Rome, Italy
Group show, Hic est sanguis meus, Artistania, Berlin, Germany
2014
Solo show, Hic est sanguis meus, Galerie 59Rivoli, Paris, France
2013
Solo show, J’ai volé les photographies, Tower’s Art Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
Group Show, 23/23, Starter Gallery, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Goup Show, Vision, Galerie Esquisses, Namur, Belgium
2012
Solo show, Je n’en veux pas à mes peurs, Galerie Ararat, Innsbruck, Austria
with the support of the French Institut of Innsbruck, Austria)
Solo show, Parce que tu as semé le trouble, Galerie Paris Terroirs, Paris, France
workshop
ateliersdigital collages for Adobe Creative Cloud & My Little Paris in France
2017
paper collages for schools in France
videos
filmsShe sees monsters, animated short film in production
2020
Canicule, animated short film
Satin, music video
production : Bijoute - artist : Jade
Astuces Endo 1 & 2, animated videos
2018
La Danseuse, animated music video
production Rovski & La Main Produtions - artists : Rovski
Prize : Best Special Stuff, International Music Video International (U.S.A)
Finalist : Roma Idependant Prisma Awards (Italy) Official selection : Berlin Music Video Award • BIFF Brussels Independent Film Festival • Bang Awards International Animation • Film Festival Lift-Off Animation and Music Video Showcase • Vid&Sound BIM Pro San Francisco • Sacramento Film & Music Festival • Anny Animation Nights Festival de Video y Cine Femenino • Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz Film Art • Muestra Movimiento Audiovisuel • Napoli Film Festival • Reanimania International Film & Comics art Festival of Yerevan • Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival • Crema Helada
2016
Sensitive, art video
Jury Prize, Best experimental short film. A Corto di Donne, International Women’s Short Film Festival (Italy)
Official selections : Muestra videoarte y video experimental Intermediacions, Medellin, Colombia • Festival du film de Masuku, Nature et Environnement, Gabon • Star Film Fest, Sisak, Croatia • Drunken Film Fest, Bradford, U.K • Tlanchana Film Fest, Metepec, Mexico • 3FICAE, Diseases International short Film and Art Film Zona Inestable, Videoarte, ensoya y experimentacion (Valence, Spain) • Festival Champ Libre (St Junien,France) • Festival International des femmes de Créteil, Espace Iris (Créteil, France)
2014
Dolor, art video
diffusion : Terriennes TV5 Monde