Opening exhibition of Yaëlle Béatrix

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Yaëlle Beatrix is a young French artist based in London. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art and design in Orléans (France), specializing in spatial design: architecture, scenography and landscape.

The exhibition presented by the artist in July is called Squares

Through her works, the artist invites everyone to visit through the eyes, places that interposee her, touched sometimes even disappointed. Its different locations are symbolically represented. The play of mirrors, light and transparency allow an almost lyrical reading of all these works. “Transparency allows a somewhat blurred reading of all my landscapes, which in my opinion favours a subjective description of my work.” Indeed, the artist conveys a very personal image of the places she wants to talk about, but what is more important for her is the discussions that can be created around these landscapes. Therefore, she was not interested in being in a realistic representation of places.

Yaëlle creates places that she calls her landscapes because they have for her a horizon, a continuity not inscribed and not palpable but which nevertheless exists. Yet all his paintings are in portrait format, and for what reasons?

"My landscapes take into account the body of the vivitor, I think that the portrait format invites more easily to the journey than the landscape format. I really want to give the impression to visitors, because that’s what they are, “visitors”, that they are facing a door to another place. Facing a window open to the world as Alberti said.”

The square is a word with multiple definitions whose meanings reflect the artist’s approach.

Basic, the edge is a quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles. But slowly the word was released from this rule to become the form of all objects resembling from near or far to a place. Then the square took volume by representing a space (especially through square feet) to finally become a real place, a space of greenery in the middle of a city. This evolution of the word, worthy of a pop-up is comparable to the artist’s approach. Indeed, the works of Yaëlle Beatrix are at first sight only a square hung on the wall, then by observing them, we discover another dimension, the square becomes 3D. Finally, when work is assimilated, the work becomes a place in which we can wander.