"My chromatic and gestural language evolves towards an increasingly minimal expression. Successive themes interpenetrate and some of them re-emerge to create cycles. While weaving transdisciplinary links with botany, ethnology, history, literature, architecture...they revolve around the before and the elsewhere, in an attempt to apprehend the here and now."

With each new creation, Anne Mandorla experiments. In her engravings, she seeks a balance between fullness and emptiness, both in her use of color and in her compositions. These are semi-figurative landscapes, where nature is omnipresent. She attempts to provide an aesthetic reading of the ordinary. Each print of the same engraving is unique, with marouflé paper, china paper and color changes.

Anne Mandorla also experiments with assemblages-collages, series halfway between painting, engraving and collage. The artist's search for harmony in her creations, and the spontaneity of her experimentation, make for exciting, detail-laden series.

Her paintings bear witness to her various travels, from the islands of the Indian Ocean to Cape Corsica and the Atlantic Sahara. Anne Mandorla carries out landscape studies, taking the opportunity to discover new pigments and materials that reflect the landscapes she discovers. "My allusive paintings are pretexts for playing with the spectacle of nature, reminding humans that they gravitate in an impermanent world... I pulverize water, clouds and organic dust in a panoramic format, outside Western norms.

Photograph by Michel Azous.