Solène Rigou draws around the theme of memory and recollection using different techniques and media: coloured pencil on wood or projection screen, ink or graphite on paper. She uses objects, places or hands to evoke visual or emotional experiences.The motif of the hands does not impose itself on the viewer; anyone can relate them to a personal memory. She captures memories that you have not experienced, that you cannot remember.
As Solène Rigou recalls memories, she develops a kind of pictorial autobiographical diary, in which she finds these memories.This allows her to recreate a moment in time and spend long hours, several days, working from photographs.Very attached to objects and memories, Solène Rigou reveals the desired image layer by layer with coloured pencils and immerses herself in the memories.
Solène Rigou was born in 1996 and lives and works in Paris.
She studied fine art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studios of Jean-Michel Alberola (2015-2018) and Stéphane Calais (2018-2020). She won the Prix du Dessin Contemporain des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019 and the 2nd Prix de Dessin Pierre-David Weill in 2022. The artist also participated in several group exhibitions in Paris at Les Beaux-Arts (2019), at Villa Belleville (2019), at La Fab (2020) and in several Parisian art galleries (2019-2021). Her works have also been included in the following collections: Beaux-Arts de Paris, Agnès b, Bellier.