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It was one summer in 2019 that the painter Corinne Tichadou unearthed a batch of annals dating from 1920 in a flea market. She was immediately captivated by the texture and outdated colors of the brochures, the delicacy of the typography and the content describing the cultural and political life of the time. By painting directly on the newspapers, Corinne Tichadou brought out the existing figures on the pages. Her imagination ran wild, and in a few brushstrokes, the Méditations series was born.
The Mediations transport us into poetic, dreamlike and mythical worlds. The backgrounds of old newspapers transport us into a timeless world. With these precise but light gestures, a shimmering but soft palette, enigmatic words or maxims, Corinne Tichadou invites us on an inner journey, a singular adventure that helps us revisit the part of innocence that vibrates in each of us. Since the beginning of the project, the artist’s daughter, photographer Sonia Reveyaz, has documented the evolution of the work. This book is the fruit of the collaboration between a mother and her daughter.
Corinne Tichadou graduated from the Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique des Beaux Arts in Perpignan in 1995. She currently lives and works in Béziers where she pursues a career as an independent painter working with several French galleries. She has notably exhibited at the Palais des Rois de Majorque in Perpignan, at the Musée de la Grande Chartreuse in Isère and recently at the Chapelle du Quartier Haut in Sète. Her painting is contemporary, figurative, mythological, allegorical and contemplative. Through mythology, tales, theater, opera, biblical stories and her love for Italian Renaissance painting, she weaves links between the past and the present. She paints humans and questions them about their relationship to love, family, courage, destiny and place in society. Humans have always been surrounded by doubts and fears rooted in the world around them. Her characters echo memory, fragility, the strangeness of the soul, vulnerability, melancholy, intimacy and silence. It is a world of thought. As soon as she has a subject and it lodges in her, Corinne Tichadou paints it and declines it serially, leaving a whole mixture on her support below the visible image.
Sonia Reveyaz was born in 1998 and grew up in the south of France, between Perpignan and Béziers. After studying political science, she began
photography in 2019, in India, on social subjects and gender issues. In early 2020, she studied at the ICP in New York with a course on documentary storytelling. Since then, she has received several awards (Grand Prix Paris Match 2021 for student photojournalism, Jeune Photographie at the Images Singulières festival) and regularly participates in festivals and exhibitions (Visa Off in Perpignan, Les Rencontres du 10e in Paris, Expo de toilettetes in Sète, Professional Festival of Amateur Photography in Arles, Exhibition at the Tour Saint-Jacques with the Hôtel de Ville in Paris). Her work documents everyday life and society from an offbeat and colorful angle. She enjoys capturing details, rough edges, the anecdotal. Through a kitsch and saturated universe, she bears witness to both the unusual scenes and the ordinary that unfold before our eyes. Her work falls within the field of documentary and photojournalism. Sonia lives and works in Paris and oscillates between the capital and the Occitanie region where her family lives.
