Céline Turlotte

Born in 1990, Céline Turlotte graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Dunkerque/Tourcoing in 2015.

The artist uses phosphorescence, blurring, and outlines as a means of creating distance from her subjects and focuses her painting on the intimate experience, transforming the body or the landscape into a space for observation, resistance, and reappropriation. Through self-portraiture and the domestic sphere, she examines how representations shape our perception of femininity and the possibility for a woman to create her own image. Since 2025, her artistic practice has taken a new turn. Without abandoning the themes that ran through her early works, Céline Turlotte has gradually shifted her focus toward landscape. Viewed through the window of a moving vehicle, these unstable landscapes become the setting for a perceptual experience where light, speed, and blur gradually replace the figure. The body fades away, but the questions remain: how to convey a sensation rather than a motif, how to make an intensity visible without representing it head-on.

In 2022, she was selected for the ArtPress Biennial for Young Artists at MO.CO Panacée in Montpellier, where she exhibited alongside Jérémy Bindi. Her work has been the subject of writings by Paul Ardenne, Emmanuel Tugny, and Mathilde Jouen, as well as several group exhibitions in France; it is currently on view at the Manoir Mouthier as part of the exhibition “Faire abstraction” through September 6, 2026.