Charlotte Vitaioli

Charlotte Vitaioli studied at the School of Fine Arts in Quimper and currently lives in Rennes. Since then, she has developed a body of work in which she makes use of a large variety of mediums. The artist is as comfortable creating monumental polyptychs as she is working with more simple methods to produce objects or paintings on a more moderate scale. Because she has retained her interest both in performance arts, which she specialised in during her studies, and in the more artisanal techniques she now uses in her artistic approach, Charlotte Vitaioli has learnt to harness every means of expression at hand in order to overhaul the traditional hierarchies between fine arts, decorative arts and applied arts. Her iconographic sources draw from a variety of references to 19th-century mythologies and artistic culture, which she often combines with more straightforwardly contemporary images. In addition to using traditional crafting techniques to make objects, stained glass, silk paintings, ceramics and embroidery, she is equally known for her work with plant installations and video. Charlotte Vitaioli’s uniqueness lies in her ability to work seamlessly with the circumstances at hand without ever losing sight of her imagination and taste for elements of art history that encompass English Gothic Revival, German Bauhaus and Native American folk art, among others.

Excerpt from a text by Jacques Py.