Florence LE VAN
collage artist
Florence Le Van defines herself as a creator of discordant universes, of a new surrealist space-time.
After a doctorate in Plastic Arts from the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, she received a scholarship from the Hoschule der Künste in Berlin (School of Fine Arts) in the photography section where she studied the different trends in Berlin photography and the photomontage from the 1920s (John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann. Hanna Höch, George Grosz …)
This is where his passion for creating collages was born.
His collages are an unexpected staging of a lifeless space, suddenly inhabited by objects, animals, humans from nowhere or elsewhere.
Its objective is to bring them back to life in an improbable universe that mixes concrete reality, the past, the marvelous, the supernatural.
The relationship to reality is thus based on contradiction, humor, derision, the transgression of classic codes and the diversion of the meaning of images.
Florence Le Van uses the technique of collage on paper from images cut out of magazines, various media such as origami paper or from her own photos without digital tricks.
Artist presented by the Art and Miss Gallery - Paris