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“Audrey Bertoia paints with time as a material. Growing up in the French countryside south of Lyon, shaped by Alpine landscapes and an athletic childhood cut short by injury, and carrying a half-buried Italian heritage that surfaced later through old films and Mediterranean color, the confluence of these experiences produced a painter drawn to light, to the body, to the relationship between figures and the natural world. Oil painting arrived as a necessity, not a choice: it filled the space left by movement. That origin has never been forgotten, and it shows in work that takes weeks, sometimes months, to complete, not as a statement but as a genuine commitment to the kind of attention that slow making requires.”
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“Audrey Bertoia is an artist who has learned to trust the period of suspension between one painting and the next, the obsessive searching for a color and composition that truly resonates, the weeks of mountain walking and absorption before returning to the studio full. The series Les Songes, diffuse, chromatic, human forms emerging from vegetation like memories surfacing from dreams, marks a new direction: toward fusion rather than separation, toward the edge of abstraction, toward a freedom that feels genuinely earned. Imagining life without painting, the answer comes without hesitation. It would be like living without light or without colors. That is not a poetic flourish. It is simply the truth.”

Excerpts from an interview for Artit.
ARTIT - Spotlight Interview - 2026