ANIMIST AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

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, she started to explore fully personal artistic creation and sound therapy in 2018.
Since 2011, she lives and works in the south of France, close to Spain, where the mediterranean landscapes feed her artistic and vitalist afflatus. She focuses more specifically on the organic and spiritual relationship with water element  — through her main subject of research : the mystical eros, a carnal and ethereal-aqueous initiation, more commonly called in southern animisms ‘spiritual marriage with water spirit’. Voodoo and serpent deities are the main part of her research and of her own spiritual quest. Her travels have led her to explore different spiritual aspects of Africa, through Senegal, Djibouti and Algeria in particular. She now plans to explore the West African coast and women’s traditional religions linked to the worship of water deities.
In 2021, she launched “Poetics of Reverie”, a collaborative artistic project combining poetry, painting, electro music, short films, body and nature, with the aspiration to poetically inhabit the flesh of the world. She collaborates with poets, videographers, painters, singers to experience vibration through slow movement, touch, sound, silence, poetic acts, symbolic language, bodily interactions with the mineral-vegetal-animal world.
Carine Iriarte on Versopolis | The European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture is an pan-European online literary magazine