Caverns, Volcanoes, and Quicksand
Pauline Barzilaï offers a dreamlike vision of the hidden world beneath our feet.
Le Voyage à Nantes and Semitan once again join forces to invite an artist to transform a tram into a moving canvas within the urban landscape.
Pauline Barzilaï’s multidisciplinary practice combines drawing, books, painting, text, printmaking, and animation. She also collaborates with numerous fanzines and festivals.
Inspired by geological cross-sections depicting the Earth’s layers – such as those created by artist and botanist Orra White Hitchcock (1796 – 1863) – Barzilaï designed six scenes showing what exists both above and below ground, creating surreal terrestrial, subterranean, and celestial visions.
Caves, mountains, volcanoes, eclipses, seas, and geological strata of rock, sand, and soil merge into a shifting landscape.
Created in oil pastel on paper, the images have a clay-like, earthy texture. Their layered colors evoke sediment, mud, and stone, offering a dreamlike vision of the hidden world beneath our feet.
Pauline Barzilaï was born in 1987 and lives and works in Marseilles.
Visit the artist’s Instagram account.
Artwork produced by Semitan
By the same artist
The label for “Terres, the Muscadet of the Voyage” was designed by Pauline Barzilaï.
Works of art in motion
In Nantes, art is everywhere, including on public transport: works of art in motion to get around the city.