Christine Safa’s (b. 1994, Le Chesnay, France; lives and works

in Paris, France) use of color and texture play a pivotal role

in achieving the dreamy poeticism in her work and harken

back to the influence of 15th century Italian painting and

its relation to frescoes. She achieves her vibrant pallet

by mixing pure pigment with oil, and creates plaster-like

surfaces with rabbit skin glue and marble powder. This

chalky, thickened substrate allows her to probe the canvas,

to carve and scrape in her search for the image. The process

is rightfully a slow one, as Safa forever encapsulates these

fleeting moments into canvas, and her practice thus reveals

itself as the poetic investigation and recollection of time

passed.

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Safa received the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-

Arts Diploma. In 2021 she was invited by Etel Adnan to

participate in a group exhibition at Levy Gorvy Gallery in

Paris. Solo exhibitions include Bortolami, New York, NY,

2024 Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2023;

Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France, 2023; and ICA Milano,

Milan, Italy, 2022.