Chantaléa Commin

Chantaléa Commin was born in Guadeloupe, went to study arts at the Sorbonne and lived in Paris for almost 25 years.
Through drawings, installations and experimental films, she reveals a disenchanted, dark, burlesque world where lines intersect the intimate and the collective, where organic peaks are rooted in local or universal humus.
"My work deals with our fears, our doubts, our procrastination, the human being and his stumbles, the « bigidi » in the Living and the indeterminate, with mutations… with an inclusive ecosystem.
Strongly marked by the chaotic world of childhood, the mess of her multiple origins, the seal of religion and superstitions, nourished by allegorical objects, family relics, as conceived by Claude Lévis-Strauss, it is a construction by familiar objects.
My expression is also violent, disoriented: “Violence is part of rural life: animals plucked, skinned, scaled, deboned, calved… thorns that pierce, mud under the fingernails. And in physical exertion and muscle pain.
There was this violence, at the same time this inertia, and the feeling that it had to be shaken up! Hence my departure!
My work is an allegory of an inventory of a disturbing point with an acceleration of behavioral changes in any field, even climatic.
It comes from the observation of these perpetual, intimate and universal movements."
Chantaléa has been exhibiting since 1993; Fondation Clément, Season of France in Japan, Memorial Acte... His work is on the cover in 2022 of the Revue Recherches en Esthétique by CEREAP.