Anaïs Albar

Anaïs Albar is born in 1985. She lives and works in Paris. Awarded with honors from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris –ENSAD, she also studied at École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris and the School of Visual Arts –SVA –in New York. Her work has been featured in several collective exhibitions: drawings for L'envers et l'endroit at the 104 Cent Quatreand for Vestiges at Atelier Beau Travail in Paris commissioned by  Agachon Collective, embroideries installations for Broderie d'Intérieur at Arsenic Gallery in Paris and De la lenteur avant toute chose at ABCD Art Brut Gallery in Montreuil, commisionned by the association Portraits La Gallerie, in both cases creating a dialogue between art brut artists and contemporary artists. Her installation Aquarium Erotica has been chosen to be part of the opening exhibition of Vitraria Glass+A Museum in Venice wich has opened in september 2014. She is also co-founder of architecture agency Quantic Studio, where she works as Artitistic Director – her last project, Hotel Le Lapin Blanc, located in the Latin Quarter in Paris, was completed in 2014. Through her embroderies and drawings, Anaïs Albar creates her own universe, inhabited by desir and sexuality as if she were narrating a magical tale. Strongly influenced by mythological figures such as Penelope or Ariane, her work brings out a flow of sensual images of embracing couples and feminine figures with the appearance of goddesses or mothers. The profusion of colors, details and the mastery and delicacy of techniques delight and blur the perception of time and genders. She also explores the concepts of interiority in architecture, creating sacred rooms and haunted houses, and populating them with the her fascinating figurative dreams, with the same patience and liquid atmosphere.