About

French-American artist, Joséphine Wister Faure graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris. She has taken part in various exhibitions in France: Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Le Plateau, Centre Pompidou... Her work travelled to Italy, Germany, the United States and China.

In parallel to her visual artwork, Josephine has regularly worked in film, crafting props and accessories, which has led her to perfect different special effect techniques that serve her in her personal work.

She lives and works in Los Angeles and in Paris.

In my early twenties I was introduced to contemporary art by sculptor Barbara Zucker and I remember thinking: “this is a kind of language using objects, colors, sounds, cloth, dirt that I understand loud and clear!”. From then on, I set out to explore new ground where I invent my own dialect and try to make it universal.

My work is built around experiments on narration, through different forms of expression: video, performance, installation, sculpture and text. I freeze a moment in a story that often revolves around an accident. Something has happened or is about to happen… The events are usually tragic, although not devoid of humor. A sense of threat entwined with fantasy and femininity haunts each of these narratives, and the viewer is driven to search for clues to reveal the remaining fragments of a puzzle.

I stage spirits by using special effect techniques and question the mechanisms of perception. The expansion of space and time builds its own dramaturgy, and the strangeness of the circumstances alone engages the viewer’s implication.

My aim is to capture the ethereal, the illusion that is present in art. I want to seize that instant, that split second where you experience a double-take and question the magic in a piece and, in turn, your own reality.