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B\u00e9atrice de Fays, aka B2Fays, is a Franco-Belgian visual artist.<\/p>\n

She uses a variety of media: paintings, video projections, interactive installations and augmented reality.<\/p>\n

In 1984, she realised that creation was the only way for her to evolve in a world that seemed totally incomprehensible to her at the time. Wishing to free herself from the dictates of institutional art at the time, and from the academicism of the painters linked to her family (Jean Robie and Balthazar-Fran\u00e7ois Tasson-Snel), she refused to go to art school, and began her career as a self-taught artist in Paris.<\/p>\n[read_more id=”3″ more=”Read more” less=”Read less”]\n

She chose a popular narrative style (comics, graphic design, etc.), and the dematerialised images of the first graphic palettes.<\/p>\n

Her first comic strip was published by Philippe Man\u0153uvre of Humano\u00efdes associ\u00e9s. Her work subsequently appeared in magazines (including M\u00e9tal Hurlant), fanzines and on television. In 1985 she took part in the first exhibition showing images made with graphic palettes, \u2018Palettes Pauvres – Images Riches\u2019, at the Centre George Pompidou \/ Paris France. In 1987, she was selected for the SIGGRAPH Art Show \/ California USA.<\/p>\n

His transition from comics to painting followed an appearance in the comic strip magazine Zoulou in 1986. Close to the Figuration Libre movement, her narrative, colourful and frontal works question human relationships, the beauty of beings and the horror that sometimes lurks beneath appearances, festivities and solitude, the poetic and wild world of urban universes.<\/p>\n

Committed to authentic art, close to life and people, she favours underground venues. B2Fays exhibited in the legendary Parisian club Les Bains Douches, decorated the nightclub Le Boy, and designed posters and armchairs for the Max Linder Panorama cinema ….<\/p>\n

In 1994, the artist radically changed her style and technique, wishing to engage in more inner research. She abandoned frontal, narrative graphics, instead inscribing layer by layer a succession of images in the depth of the canvas, and on large polyptychs.<\/p>\n

At the same time, all his paintings were destroyed in a fire! This shock made her aware of the fragility of matter, and of the perennial nature of the artistic experience, which transforms the body and mind in an immutable way. She decided to use computers again to involve visitors in the creative process and share the experience.<\/p>\n

In 1996, during residencies at the CICV Pierre Schaeffer (Centre International de Cr\u00e9ation Vid\u00e9o), she created multimedia installations. In 1999, following a research residency at the CNBDI (Centre National de la BD et de l’Image) with her musician partner Lotfi Zitouni, she designed the Xposelive installation. From 1999 to 2006, this installation was presented in various venues. In 2006, the artist was awarded the \u2018Villa M\u00e9dicis Hors les Murs\u2019 prize in India.<\/p>\n

During her residency at the Espace Mend\u00e8s France, she began a collaboration with multimedia artist Mathieu Constans, with whom she created the interactive Digital Palimpsest. This installation, based on the concept, scenography and experience of Xposelive, will be presented at the Centre d’Art RURART \/ Rouill\u00e9 France, then during a tour of India: IIT Bombay (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Kalahita Art Foundation \/ Hyderabad – Shrishti Art School \/ Bangalore.<\/p>\n

From then on, B\u00e9atrice de Fays worked between Asia and Europe, creating paintings, interactive multimedia installations, projections on accumulation, and augmented reality spaces.<\/p>\n

In 2008, she designed a network of two interactive installations between La G\u00e9ode (La Cit\u00e9 des Sciences – Paris) and the Nehru Science Centre (Mumbai – India), where visitors meet, interact and create together, in real time, 7,000 km away.<\/p>\n

She then exhibited in Brussels, Belgium (H\u00f4tel de Ville Saint Gilles, Galerie Arielle d’Hauterives, European Commission), Manila, Philippines, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Pondicherry and Mumbai, India (Goethe Zentrum, Kalakriti Art Gallery, World Design Assembly, India Habitat Centre, etc.) and Hong Kong (PMQ Central).<\/p>\n

These paintings are part of several international and Indian collections: Park Hyatt Hyderabad, Novotel Vijayawada Varun, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Hyderabad and private collections.<\/p>\n[\/read_more][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZkHV3_7xIFc?si=n2gEy13G7mke5mf0″ el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”zoomIn” css=”” title=”Inspace”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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Technique: Mounted archival ink transfer & AR (Augmented Reality)<\/p>\n

Music by : Mathieu Constans<\/p>\n

Support: encased canvas<\/p>\n

Dimensions: 23.62 * 35.43 in<\/p>\n

Year : 2024<\/p>\n

Unframed<\/p>\n

Print run: numbered and limited to 12 copies<\/p>\n

Countersigned, dated, titled and numbered<\/p>\n

Work sold with certificate of authenticity<\/p>\n

Offered by the artist : B\u00e9atrice de Fays – Paris – France<\/p>\n

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