Land scape
Marie Rioux
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
« Troisième rencontre avant la nuit »(" Third encounter before the night "), 20x60, mixt on canvas, 2016
You have once remarked in your artist ' s statement that the places that you depict in your work are mostly your own: so we would take this occasion to ask you how do you consider the relationship between memory and experience in your process. In particular, do you thin that personal experience is an absolutely indispensable part of a creative process... Could a creative process be disconnected from direct experience?
I am convinced that no creator is disconnected from direct experience, even though we do not all have the same perception of a moment. I believe that education, culture and the places where we grew up leave the first traces of the person we will become later. In the end, my travels, the music I have listened to, the many art exhibitions I have attended, my irreplaceable and undying encounters, my loves and my sorrows shaped the artist I have become. I think that it is only possible to truly succeed in creating one’ s own visual language when we are closest to our