Valérie Poli by Elsa Ballanfat, associate professor of philosophy, doctor of philosophy, dancer:

Valérie Poli's canvases have a rhythmic quality: each painting reveals the cadence of a crack in its material, showing the outburst of a verticality or color just as an instant stands out from a musical slowness.

The painting, traversed by the fractures of its spatial rhythm, the voids and breaths through which each parcel of its canvas diffracts and tightens, finally grasps itself as the fraction of a reality.

It calls up, beyond itself, its imaginary and sensitive extension. Our gaze glimpses the space that continues, then returns to the canvas and plunges into its features as if into the spasms of a material that splits and deepens indefinitely.

Valérie Poli by Véronique Perriol :

Valérie Poli's art evokes and sensitively suggests maritime landscapes. It's a plunge into a space that gradually reveals itself, thanks to a skilful superimposition of layers of paint mixed with different materials such as quartz and sand that diffract the light. Blue, often indigo, dominates her creations, creating a universe where water and sky merge in a passionate dialogue. This sensory confusion is the result of a play of reflections that is sometimes disrupted by mist, creating an evanescent atmosphere.

This atmospheric painting, which has nothing indefinite about it, evokes the impressions of a Turner adept at London fogs; a significant reference when we know the artist's ancestry with the Scottish philosopher David Hume. The calm of certain canvases is succeeded by a dazzling movement that springs from the pictorial space.

The artist speaks very well of this essential contrast in her work, where the spontaneity of the creative act reigns: "It is the alternation between calm and tumult, between intuition, letting go and mastery, that guides me in the construction of my canvases." The artist enters into communion with the canvas, carried by an imaginary vision of a universe of sensations, emotions and energy.