Biography

Christine Barone is an artist born in Marseille in 1982.
Her work explores both figuration and abstraction, painting, collage, textiles, relief, and installation. Through this diversity of media, a single quest runs through her work: to make visible what, within us, often remains buried, fragile, incandescent, or unspeakable.

From childhood, her imagination was nourished by artistic creation, early digital tools, and a very free relationship with objects, materials, and everyday fragments. Very early on, she drew, assembled, and transformed. This taste for experimentation, for modest or discarded things, still informs her work today.

Trained in applied arts and then fashion design, Christine Barone has developed a practice in which the body, femininity, norms, injury, metamorphosis, and repair occupy a central place. Her works also question our relationship to life, pollution, memory, and identity.

Whether it involves female figures, recycled materials, organic reliefs, fragments of text, or plant worlds, her work seeks less to denounce than to transform. It is not about confining our gaze to darkness, but about opening a space of transition: a place where pain can become form, where matter reinvents itself, where beauty, gentleness, and strength can still emerge.

For Christine Barone, creating perhaps comes down to this: not denying the fractures, but offering them another way out.

« After all, isn’t art there to invent a new world? »