Bio

Kethevane Cellard (b.1975, Paris, Fr) is an artist working on the mental representation — the mindscape— of our relationships to ourselves, others, and our surroundings. Her work navigates between ink drawing and wood sculpture, and recently expanded into 3D printing. Bridging ancestral  art, social sciences, and contemporary events, Cellard’s entitites and compositions feature free floating forms, in monochromatic or muted tones. Her ambiguous, hybrid forms weave the ancient with the contemporary in search of vitality.

Cellard earned an MA with Honours from E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France), and pursued at A.N.R.T. Atelier Nationale de Recherche Typographique in Paris, France. 
She particpated in exhibitions both locally (Galerie des Femmes, Paris, Fr, Galerie Alexandre Piatti, Paris, Fr, Galerie Julio Gonzales, Arcueil),  and internationally (Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, DE, StudioBlock 74, CDMX, Mexico).
In 2021, Cellard had her first solo show commissioned by Galerie Julio Gonzales in Arcueil, linked to a workshop she gave. 
Her work is held in private collections in Europe and the USA, as well as in a public collection in the Greater Paris Area.
She currently lives and works in Arcueil (Greater Paris area), France.

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Solo show

2021
Archéofictions
Solo show commissioned by Galerie Julio Gonzales in Arcueil, in association with a college workshop (didn’t open due to a covid lockdown)

Select Group Shows

2024
Untitled 002
Haze Gallery, Berlin, DE
2024
Mouvements et ondulations
Galerie J. Gonzales (Arcueil, Fr)
2024
Exhibit 13
Floorr Magazine - Online show
2023
Galerie de portraits
Galerie J. Gonzales (Arcueil, Fr)
2023
Craft Gallery X Galerie Alexandre Piatti
(Paris, Fr)
2022
Partage
Partage, Galerie J. Gonzales (Arcueil, Fr)
2022
Inside Draftswomen
Feinkunst Krüger (Hamburg, De)
2021
Biodifformités - 3 persons show
(Pioche Projects, Biarritz, Fr)
2021
Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize
Long-listed (London, UK)
2021
Carré sur Seine - Selection
(Boulogne Billancourt, Fr)
2020
Craft Gallery
(Paris, Fr)
2020
Makers
(Merci Paris, Paris, Fr)
2020
Et pourtant elle tourne…
(Galerie Julio Gonzalès, Arcueil, Fr)
2020
Dialogos
(StudioBlock 74, Mexico City, Mexico)
2019
Avant-Cènes
(Cènes, Paris, Fr)

Artist Statement

My work navigates between ink drawing and wood sculpture, and recently expanded into 3D printing. It explores the mental representation — the mindscape— of our relationships to ourselves, others, and our surroundings. Working from reading notes and sketches, I craft free floating entities and compositions in monochromatic or muted tones in a visually pleasing way. These hybrid forms are clearly represented at the same time as it is tricky to know what they represent. They are difficult to situate in time, bridging the ancestral, the organic, and the recent man-made. 

My shapes arise from the bodily experience of what it feels like to understand, as suggested by the latin etymology cum-prehendere, to seize within oneself. The strangeness of my forms stems from the diversity and sometimes conflictuality of those mental mouvements, embodying the tensions as I work through my search for meaning. A dual mouvement is at work: accepting within the strangeness of both the inside and the outside, and inhabiting this renewed identity. The titles of my works often present a counterpoint to their appearance, widening the range of interpretations. It is said both in quantum physics and in meditation that observing is an act that changes the result of the experience. My work celebrates this mystery. Inhabiting the strangeness within is a quiet political act.


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