Amélie Peace is a French London-based artist working both in painting and printmaking. Her practice delves into the experience of touch and the human need for physical connection. The psychophysical dialogues she creates in her works explore the emotional, sexual and gendered experience. She questions what it means to have a body, to share that body, how each exchange with another person alters one's sense of their physical self.
Peace captures moments that stand on the line between softness and cruelty. The cruelty might be subtle at times but one can look to the clues the artist has left behind for us to decipher. Hands are an obvious fascination for her - forms that are always highlighted in her paintings. They act as stepping stones guiding the viewer through the many storylines.
The intensity of colour in Peace's work is used as a megaphone to portray the themes she explores. What it means to speak without words, the power that can be found in the unspoken language of the gestural. In the artist's paintings, the fourth wall is broken, which entices the viewer to become part of the theatrical puzzles Peace puts together in her pursuit to depict human emotion.