Biography

Currently artist-in-residence at 59 Rivoli Paris, Naomi is a French-Macanese artist based in Paris. She holds a MA from Sciences Po Paris and a BA from the École des Arts de la Sorbonne. Her art practice is focused on memories, the nature, existential anxiety and antihumanism. Her works had been shown in France, Finland and Iceland.

Artist statement                                                      

I see the creative process as the interactions between old memories and new thoughts. New memories smooth out the old ones like a veil. Real memories interact with the imaginary ones as some old photos which can barely withstand the fading process. They appear as broken mosaics or disjointed stained glasses. Flaws and artefacts bring reality to my works.

Under the influence of Kristín Jónsdóttir frá Munkaþverá’s works which brought me to the border between the water and the land in the northern Iceland, I was inspired by the characteristics of tides which repeatedly hide and reveal things that would need our patience to wait and observe. This idea also applies to the waves of overlapping memories as well as our moral conscience. These tides continue to push the border between the land and the sea, the sea and the sky, creating a tension of existence among the 3 realms.

Uncertainty, instability and fragility are the backbone of my works. To illustrate this, I put the spectators at the zero degree point: above this point, the snow melts and is replaced by water. I show my works as if there were constantly a coin between my fingers – the Head and the Tail fight to be shown.