Romane de Watteville b. 1993
Romane de Watteville (*1993) is a French-Swiss artist who lives and works in Lausanne. She graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Film Studies from the University of Lausanne, and continued her studies with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). There, she developed a practice focused on figurative painting, engaging with the iconography of art history.
Winner of the Mobilière Prize in 2022, she has been invited to present her work in various group exhibitions and international art fairs in both France and Switzerland; notably at Plattform21 at MASI in Lugano, at the Fabienne Levy Gallery in Lausanne, at the Passerelle Centre for Contemporary Art in Brest, at the Dittrich & Schlechtriem gallery in Berlin, at the art center in La Chaux-de-Fonds, as well as at Paris Internationale.
The historical genre of the portrait lies at the heart of Romane de Watteville's research. Her work is explored through figurative painting, preliminary sketches with photographic collages, as well as through drawings, set designs, murals and close-up depictions balancing sensuality and visual puns. Her fragmented points of view and trompe-l'œil compositions deliver something on the threshold of the real and the imaginary.
