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Elsa Tomkowiak

"Elsa Tomkowiak maintains a passionate relationship with color which involves her own body - clothing, make-up - the practice of painting and, beyond that, a projection into environmental spaces, whether architectural or natural. She reinvents her chromatic arrangements, in defiance of all the dogmas and all the treaties that we have seen fit to establish over the ages. She recreates her own codes to achieve the specific harmonies and disharmonies. Elsa Tomkowiak's creative activity is strained by a vital impulse. […] In spring 2004, it was in the Alps, on the snow-covered slopes of the heights of Samoëns that she painted in the snow, for hundreds of meters. In Lyon, in 2006, she invested an industrial wasteland. By intervening on the walls and in the space with large sheets of polyethylene, she creates a penetrable pictorial environment of more than 1800 m2 in which visitors can circulate by bicycle. All of her workshop projects, drawings and works on autonomous supports, are the bearers of this desire of expansion and of the bestowal of color in the environment. " © Hubert Besacier