Valérie Nogier

The drawing, the material and the collage are the path of my artistic practice. Always with the aim of recovering, of giving a new meaning to the objects of the everyday life, I excavate and extract in the old magazines, newspapers....

My paintings are composed of successive layers of acrylic, medium, pigments and paper. I rub, scrape and disintegrate them knowingly to intensify the effect of degradation, leaving only the essential.

My inspirations are urban and ethnic, I work instinctively, according to my emotions and my encounters. I glue and I take off to discover these improbable mixtures, these fragments of images, typography, like a diary to be read in half words...