Look at You

Each of Olivia Descampes’ works is unique and handmade from original magazines and publications that date from the 1950s to the 1980s. Olivia’s distinctive style is influenced by her instinct for fortunate coincidences and random mistakes.

That’s how her distinctive technique called décollage has emerged : while she was ripping papers in an outburst of anger, she sees, among the paper scraps, a singular composition, simultaneously scathing and ethereal. This curious feeling of fortunate coincidence and strange providence undeniably emerges from each of her compositions.

The troubling resonance with the texts of great freestyle authors is therefore not really a coincidence. Forgotten and immovable moments are then brought back to life by the caress of the delicate contrast between movement and immobility.

When the artist rips these paper relics for her work, the past to which they testify reappears. Again, a fortunate accident, while destruction reveals itself.