Born on January 8, 1975 in Angoulême (France). Holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Human Sciences (Visual Arts) and a Bachelor’s degree in Language Sciences (Digital Communication and New Media). First a soldier in the French Armed Forces, then a freelance graphic designer and artistic director.

From 2011 to 2025, she lived and worked in the south of France, close to Spain, where the mediterranean landscapes fed her vitalist afflatus. In 2025, she settles in the Charente lands of her maternal ancestors, by the river, in the village of Vitrac-Saint-Vincent to create a place of experimentation and artistic research around traditional water cults and ecospiritualities. She is currently working on a dissertation « Multimedia Poetry in Spiritual Ecofeminisms, Queer Ecologies and Animist Cosmologies. Eropolitical Perspectives”. Her collaboration with the poet Tania Haberland « The Torrid Zone » is a manifesto of this line of research.

The organic and spiritual relationship with waters and more specifically « spiritual marriage with water spirit », the notion of « family shamanism » opposed to the patriarchal model of « specialized shamanism » reported by the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon, are her main subject of research. Voodoo and serpent deities are central part of this research and of her own spiritual quest. Her travels have led her to explore different spiritual and sociological aspects of Africa, through Senegal, Djibouti and Algeria in particular. She now plans to journey to the West African coast and to Brazil for immersing into women’s traditional religions (worship of water deities) and digital-artistic creations in experimental rural spaces.

She collaborates with poets, painters, singers, dancers to experience vibration through slow movement and bodily interactions with the mineral-vegetal-animal world. In 2021, she launched “Poetics of Reverie”, a collaborative artistic project combining poetic languages, painting, electro music, video, body and nature, with the aspiration to poetically inhabit the flesh of the world and to indulge in daydreaming (called altered state of consciousness by science), which is a resistance and an answer to the grip of a mechanistic and utilitarian world. As Bachelard wrote « we must learn to dream again », diving into ancient cosmogonies that were « audacious reveries » against the tyranny of organized thought. 

Carine Iriarte on Movings Poems | Poetry in Video Form, US International Data Base