Chloé Kelly Miller

Acrylics, graffiti, inks, oil pastels 

Born in Rouen in 1995, Chloé Kelly Miller lives and works in Paris. Her practice began in 2018, alongside her studies in psychology, and is oriented towards psychoanalysis. Her work is rooted in often automatic mechanisms that encourage the liberation and exploration of the unconscious.

Photographs, acrylics, graffiti, inks, oil pastels and drawings make up the various facets of the artist's work. The portrait occupies a prominent place, and through spontaneous and eruptive work pursues the revelation shared through the image, or the sensations latent in the experience of self and otherness.

From pop culture icons to incomplete or bruised personal narratives, the artist grapples with questions of identity and representation, re-evaluating the very mode of appearance of her being through interaction with the subject.

In many cases, the space of the canvas is seen as a support for the staging of the body and the application of color, which participate in a sublimation of affects. The diversity of mediums favours the expression of a spontaneous, impulsive gesture, intended to question gesture to the detriment of that which governs the human being: language.

Attentive to the personal trajectories of artists such as Dali, Basquiat, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Keith Haring, Patti Smith and Mapplethorpe, Chloé Kelly Miller revisits an artistic pantheon whose technique she overworks and whose legacy she constantly reinterprets.

Neo-expressionism is one of the artist's most enriching artistic currents. Archaism challenges and questions the most primal, the most profound. It is in the wake of these artists that Chloé Kelly Miller in turn attempts to capture the elusive, an obscure and nebulous reality, a truth of her own and personal.

Graduating as a Clinical Psychologist in 2019, Chloé Kelly Miller is continuing her studies in Research in preparation for a thesis until June 2020. In parallel, the artist continues to invest in her body of work, integrating new galleries on an international scale, participating in solo and group exhibitions, as well as collaborating on various projects with designers, restorers, sculptors and textile creators.

From Bangkok to Paris, via Casablanca, Toulouse, Rouen and Perros-Guirec, Chloé Kelly Miller's work extends beyond borders and language.