Born in France in 1977, Emmanuelle Leblanc lives and works in Bordeaux. While her work is initially rooted in photorealism, it has shifted into a more minimalistic style that tends toward continuing the traditions of the Colour Field Experience and deliberately blurs the lines between categories. Her painting, which is conceived with regards to the phenomena of perception, space and scale, has progressed toward a fading of the image, which now only appears occasionally or is only hinted at. Her two-dimensional pieces, painted on canvas, wood or paper, as well as her polyptych friezes (La ligne de peinture [The Painted Line]), her architectural volumes (arches and columns) and her site-specific interventions form a body of work with composite and versatile palettes. Underpinning her work is the perilous ambition to produce light with matter, which she delineates through the use of photographic and digital tools but places at the heart of an approach to pictorial texture marked by ancient techniques.
Her series Diffuses proposes a form of atmospheric synthesis of memory-infused spaces, moments or images. The immateriality of the surfaces makes us forget the hand of the artist to immerse us in a sensory and meditative experience. This is a form of painting that aims for the sublime and strives to reactivate a certain idea of the aura. The artist has been exhibiting in France and abroad (Belgium, India, Italy, Germany, Holland) for some fifteen years. Her work is part of several private collections in Europe. They have been shown in galleries (Archiraar, Kalakriti, Keitelman, Xenon), at fairs (Art Paris, Galeristes, Art Rotterdam, Luxembourg Art Week), and in various curatorial projects (with Atelier Martel in 2022, the Föhn curatorial platform, Editions Multiple Un or the Artothèque de Pessac in 2019 and 2020, the Institut Courteauld as part of the East Wing Biennial in 2016, the Prix de peinture de Vitry in 2013 and 2014, Le Musée san Prisco in 2012).
Emmanuelle Leblanc regularly develops projects as a curator (Bleu Satellite, an annual
contemporary art event born in Bordeaux in 2022, Les gloriettes, a program of artistic residencies in Entre-deux-Mers between 2021 and 2023 and Pleonasm, a European platform for the dissemination of contemporary artists that she co-directed between 2013 and 2017).
