Miyuka Schipfer
Biography
Miyuka Schipfer’s practise is illustrative and multidisciplinary. With the use of print, pencil, ink, photography and digital illustrations she focuses on observational studies in varied settings.
Self Portrait by Miyuka Schipfer.
With an obsessive need to keep traces of the daily show of life, she has been documenting her surroundings for more than ten years in both intimate settings, and those where she sits as a distant observer. By observing her subjects with attention and discretion, she is focused on a 'suspended' time, specific to observational drawing.
Schipfer strives to make the time of the encounter with her subject ritualised by the drawing, to become more sensitive to slight variations in front of a falsely stopped scene, a bowl of fruit or a sleeping face.
In her work, she tries to bring together a condensed version of this extended time in a single static image.
Her aim is not to show the subject, but rather the encounter of a glance with the subject, and to invite the spectator to feel and share this encounter themselves.
Because "the most intimate is also the most universal" (Le traité des solitudes, Nicolas Grimaldi, Ed. Puf 2003), her subjects are always drawn from her lived experiences.
Part of Schipfer’s work presented by ICHANT was realised in Tetouan, Morocco. The etchings drawn in situ are faithful to her impressions of the subject. As for the aquatint and the colouring added in the workshop, they bear witness to the memory of these impressions, with a freedom in the interpretation and representation of all sensations, including olfactory and sound. These last two stages in the workshop are like remnants of samples of her memories always in movement.
Exhibitions
2020
‘Project’s restitution exhibition’ / Fondation Marc de Montalembert , Rhodes, Greece
2019
‘LA RENCONTRE’, / Residence exhibition at French Institute of Tetouan, Morocco
‘La vérité n’est pas la vérité’ (Drawings exhibition realised during Meris Angioletti's reading circle at MABA (Nogent-sur-Marne, FRANCE)
‘1230°C (3)’ / Galerie Iconoclaste, Paris, France
‘TOUT TERRAIN’ / 79 Rue Cartier Bresson, Pantin, France
2018
1230°C (2)’ / Galerie Iconoclaste, Paris, France
2017
1230° / Galerie Iconoclaste, Paris, France
‘PRINTMAKING’ / Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xian, China
‘50 DANS LA BOÎTE’ / La Capela, Paris, France
2014
‘POESIE SCIENTIFIQUE’ / Alliance Française, Bologna, Italy
2012
DES BRUITS DE VERRE, (Collective exhibition during Designer’s Days at Cerfav, (Pantin, FRANCE)