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Martine Aballéa

Her work deals with decorative and natural imagery: these images inhabit her photographs, which are enhanced with colorful punctuation, thus giving birth to a dreamlike, bitter-sweet surreality. One must be attentive to the slightest detail in her work: pretty images or insignificant visions are rarely what they claim. 


She is well-known for her recolored prints, where images and texts intertwine to create stories. Her pasted shows have included:  The house below Narcissio (Nice, 2016),  The house without n , Crac Occitanie (2012) or  the Passenger Hotel , ARC, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (1999) ), the artist sets up a form of decoration where fiction is created.


Courtesy of Éditions Dilecta

Born 1950
Hometown New York, NY
Lives and Works Paris, France
Permanent Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, NY

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, France

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France

Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France

Musée de Trouville, Trouville-sur-Mer, France

FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

FRAC Corse, Corte, France

FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France

FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Seine-St-Denis, France

Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France

Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges, France

Musée de l’abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France