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Mélanie Ertaud

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Illustration
Generative art

Turned away, always. We won't see their face, and that's not the point; everything is in the shoulders, in the slowness, in the way they doesn't turn around. What matters isn't where they're going but that they keeps going.

Matter forgives nothing, and asks for nothing either. It simply waits for precision. Each gesture repeats the one before without ever quite resembling it, and it's that repetition that builds.

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2026

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Mélanie Ertaud

France

A hybrid artist by nature, Mélanie Ertaud weaves. Between video games, animated film, immersive experiences, and painting, she constructs worlds where the boundaries between disciplines are not limits but passages. Her work is born from this porosity. Having long shaped virtual worlds as a Concept Artist and Art Director, her practice gradually moves away from the screen to return to materiality. From digital to traditional, what interests her is the deep coherence of a world: its light, its textures, what makes it inhabitable and instantly recognizable. Each project is an invitation to cross through. In video games and animated film, she creates spaces that carry memory. In immersive experiences, she pushes this gesture further, until the viewer no longer simply observes, but inhabits. Her painting extends this movement in another way. Oil, texture, raw material — through them, she translates the fragility of the living and the intensity of the moment, nourished by her physical engagement with the world: mountaineering and sailing.

This research finds its fullest expression in her exhibitions. In 2024 at MOB Hôtel in Lyon, then in 2025 at Galerie Alcôve, she unfolds 360° installations where oil painting, projection, and live piano composition respond to one another: spaces designed to be both traversed and felt.

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