Mathilde Rosier

Mathilde Rosier (b. 1973, Paris, France) works across a range of media including painting, music, performance and film. Rosier holds a Bachelor of Economic Sciences at Dauphine University, Paris. In 1994, she received a Master degree in Economic Sciences. From 1997 to 1999 Rosier studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris and in 2000, she received a diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts.

Artist Statement

My work as a painter , musician, performer and film maker has always been inspired by the aesthetic of rituals in traditional societies. more specifically I study how an art form, being dance, music or visual, can induce an altered state of consciousness according to specific codes of display and social interactions. I restitute in my own practice the elements I collected during my researches, but with no direct aesthetic reference to the cultures I met, this in order to avoid any kind of folklorist romanticism.