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Adèle Tilouine is a young French painter, member of the Taylor Foundation since 2017, who is mainly interested in the aesthetics of the cellular scale.

 

She obtained her Master in Social Sciences specialising in visual studies at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in 2013 and completed thereafter a pre-doctorate in Museum Anthropology. Afterwards, she worked in a cabinet of expertise and in a modern art gallery, before moving to artistic creation. Rewarded in 2015 by the "Grand Prix Arbuste" at Salon Arbuste in Mantes-la-Jolie, she exhibited the same year at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. Adèle Tilouine presents works on a regular basis at collective events or individual exhibitions.

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The cell, common to all living beings and which composes us without our being aware of it, is a theme that is of paramount importance to her and that she declines in a series of visuals, articulating scientific, artistic and imaginary sources. Thus, using the cellular forms as patterns and playing with the scales by greatly enlarging microscopic elements, she frees them from their scientific aspect in order to enhance their aesthetic power.

 

Exploring the language of cellular elements and its variations by playing with their shapes and the range of their surprisingly artificial colours, that it restores on various supports (painting with pigments, glass, customisation of models, photography, make-up, installation, etc.), Adèle Tilouine organises her compositions around symmetry and asymmetry, scale variations and interlocking structures. Her approach probes the dialectic between science and imagination and she pays particularly attention to finding a balance between intellectual research and aesthetic research. Through these processes, she wishes to reconstruct a twofold creative process: that of artistic creation and that of creation of life.

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