Salomé Chatriot merges elements of technology with organic parts to create physical and virtual spaces where electronic sculptures and digital images coexist.
In her work, physical processes like breathing and heart beating activate mechanical processes, resulting in a symbiosis between human bodies and technological devices. While refusing to embrace a prevailing pessimism about technological progress, she seeks for opportunities to expand our intimate relationships with technologies. In addition, she explores issues of identity, gender and sexuality through a distinctly erotic component, while it also challenges dominant narratives. Through her hybrid, disturbing yet optimistic artistic language, Chatriot is capable of generating unconventional approaches relating to technological tools.
“Anxious to counteract the coldness of the mechanical, the virtual image and the prefabricated, she strives to coat her creations with the poetry of her universe and the formal softness of the living.”
Matthieu Jacquet, The organic creatures of Salomé Chatriot, at the border of the real and the virtual Numéro Art, July 2021