MONIQUE VOIRET

Visual artist member of the Maison des Artistes, professional association from 1992, live and work near Lyon (France.)

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She participates from 1986 in exhibitions of visual arts in France or sometimes abroad and for several years at consultations of intervention in public art where her works take all their meaning in an opened dialogue with the environmental, architectural and historic context of the concerned places.
Her both scientific and artistic studies, allows her to find in the computer tools a virtual workshop adapted to the development of its researches.
She conceives installations which involves the inter-activity of the viewer where text, image or light serve for returning counts of a place or a reality.
This allows her to pass from monumental works to smaller interventions always in dialogue with the users of the place and the space in which the works take place.
She as worked in collaboration with the Parisian agency of architecture AMB of Mr. Beauvais for artistic and signage part of the rehabilitation of a Lyon hospitable center.

Currently she works with Archidentaire directed by the architect D. Jacquet for artistic personalization of medical practices reception areas.

"I am a visual artist with always a vision of a photographer and I like to integrate an architectural scale in my installations. I use the tools of the new technologies for the design of my works, and create them with supports often very simple like wood, glass, metal, the cloth of a garment or the frame of a door, of a window...

After several years working at the architectural scale for urban space, I come back towards a notion of interior place, more private, in limits of a frame...
I always seek to create a different dialogue with the viewer, where he remains actor in the reading of my proposal that I suggest to him even if he must open a door or half open a window... "