Collection: PELISSIER Cecilia

Cécilia Pelissier develops a body of work that is at once precise, contemplative, and committed, centered on the representation of animals. Her watercolor practice is based on a deliberate economy of means: an intense dialogue between black and white, where light is worked through reserve, and shadow, through saturation. This formal duality is never gratuitous—it reinforces the purpose: to express the progressive erasure of the living, in all its fragile beauty.

Her subjects, meticulously chosen from among the endangered species listed by the IUCN, appear suspended in the space of the paper, between appearance and disappearance. Refusing anecdote or illustration, Cécilia Pelissier focuses her gesture on the essential: gaze, posture, tension of the line. She thus composes animal portraits of great silent intensity, which challenge as much as they hold.

The past year marks a turning point in his artistic career, with the affirmation of a coherent body of work and the desire to convey a message of awareness more broadly through images. His work is finding increasing prominence in regional exhibition contexts, in a dynamic of dissemination attentive to the territorial anchoring as much as to the universal scope of his message.

Cécilia Pelissier belongs to a generation of artists for whom the question of life is not a theme, but an urgent one. Her work does not illustrate—it watches.