Virginie Steban

After working in tattoo art and practicing street art, painting came naturally to me, as a need, an identity not really found until then.

I mix materials, acrylic, spray paint, ink, varnish, charcoal, pastels ... I incorporate raw metal, often worn, oxidized, recovered from here and there. Mixed with the bodies, it accentuates and appears sometimes like an armor, sometimes like a wound... sometimes like a prison, sometimes like a liberation.

I realize my creations without model nor photo, I do not name my canvases and do not paint the faces voluntarily, thus no word, nor no expression is imposed in order to leave to each, the feelings of its own emotion.