Amélie Barnathan

Amélie Barnathan is a French-Italian artist who graduated from the Royal College of Arts in London in 2016. She expresses herself through drawing, illustration and painting. Her work stems from an intimate, deep, almost obsessive relationship with her art. She believes that drawing has an importance and meaning that needs to be reassessed, and that it reveals the unconscious in the face of the visual immediacy of our digital age. Her proposals are expressive and often complex: her visuals possess a narrative power, nourished by multiple sources, notably the concepts of the sublime and the grotesque. They summon the historical and the mythical, the imagery of dreams and nightmares. Through her drawings, Amélie Barnathan opens up new, alternative and absurd universes, nourished by historical and contemporary references as well as highly personal fantasies and desires. Her recent work explores female identity and sexuality, the adolescent psyche, trauma and monstrous representations in art history.