MORGANE PLACET-RITTER

Business Name: MORGANE PLACET-RITTER
Type of Work: oil paint and pencils

Contact Information

Email: info@morganeplacet.com

Website: www.morganeplacet.com

Facebook: morgane ritter

Twitter: instagram @mozgane

Biography

My artistic practice develops from drawing and painting, considered as spaces of
experimentation where the image is in constant transformation. I am interested in the
processes of alteration, disappearance and reappearance of forms, as well as what is no
longer valued: rejected objects, worn-out materials, abandoned fragments.
My work seeks to make visible what we no longer see.
I paint colorful and abstract pareidolias, built by overlaps, erasures, coverings and
assumed accidents. These vibrating, unstable fields allow suggested, almost accidental
forms to emerge, as if the image revealed itself through matter. Within these compositions,
I introduce in a figurative way -most often in black and white- a rejected or banal object.
This contrast between the colored density and the sober presence of the object creates a
tension: the marginal element becomes an anchor point for the gaze.
The disappearance of images constitutes the heart of my research.
It is not a symbolic or digital erasure, but a material and physical phenomenon: degraded
surfaces, interrupted gestures, erasures, fragments, erased areas. I frequently work on
recovered or altered media: canvases and reused papers, cardboards, wood, fabrics ...
whom I consider to be bearers of a prior memory. These materials, already marked by time
or use, become active partners in the creative process.
My approach is part of a reflection around the notions of trace, ruin, fragment and waste.
By reintroducing neglected elements into the pictorial space, I question the value we
attribute to images and objects.
What is worth preserving, watching, passing on?
What do we agree to let disappear?
The process matters as much as the completed work. I prioritize long time,
experimentation, and the gradual evolution of work. Each intervention leaves a trace, visible
or buried, participating in the development of a personal plastic language. Through my
paintings, I seek to shift the gaze, to slow down perception and to propose a space where
the ordinary, the marginal and the fragile find a new presence—a place where the image,
far from being fixed, remains vulnerable, moving and open.