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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Trained in interior architecture, Pauline Mathilde Nataf decided to turn to the Fine Arts. Accustomed since childhood to expressing herself through drawing and painting, she discovered the art of ceramics, which then gave her the ability to translate her ideas into three-dimensional form. The image nourishes her work on the object and vice versa; these two mediums allow her to reconcile painting and design, a necessity for an artist who remains rooted and concerned about our daily environment.

WORDS FROM THE ARTIST
Pauline M. Nataf
"Through my obsession with cubism, I ended up drawing circles. For me, the cube was the origin of everything. Drawing is built with cubes and triangulations. The Cubists understood everything, the Primitivists invented everything. Trees, cows, birds, windows, earth, sun, everything is a cube; it is the only thing that allows construction. To build at any cost. Then, inspiration, the strongest, the first, dominant, obvious; Love. The one I have within me because my mother put it there. So, I draw maternal embraces, the curves of their bellies, their embracing arms, the protective alcove they are, they create, they form. Birth, origin, life is contained in an egg, a shell. We preserve life through the soft, rounded refuge, through the convexity of the body. Before construction, there is existence. Being before doing. The circle before the square.
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My inquiries revolve around the real value of things. The value we attribute to them through price, esteem, or feelings. Applied arts and Fine Arts cannot, in my eyes, be separated because they enrich each other. Fine Arts need to be disrupted, impacted by reality and daily life; this makes them always more exciting, always in motion. And applied arts, by being close to Fine Arts, invite Beauty, aesthetics into our daily lives and thereby give it a part of eternity."
