Aurélie Galois is a painter and a writer.

While studying literature (at Sorbonne University) and history of art (at the School of the Louvre), she learned every traditional techniques of painting, drawing and engraving in a private studio in Paris.

As a young editor in chief for several magazines and free lance writer, she started to paint the portraits of those she was interviewing.

Faces and bodies are become her favorite landscape.

Aurélie Galois' enigmatic, baroque and sometimes surreal paintings have always explored the fuzzy areas of the human psyche, through strange subjects, secret symbols and phantasmagorical theatrical settings that both create and deny narratives.

Alchemical and erotic rites, dreams and nightmares, celebration or erasure are just some of the elements of her multi-layered paintings, both symbolic and material, which seem to belong to a world in itself, a world we are only allowed to enter if we engage our own secrets and fears.

Aurélie Galois' painting is in this sense a true journey into the unconscious.

Text by Sinziana Ravini, curator and art critic