About us
My name is Nadia Dloussky.
My path intersects with both the visual arts and human adventures.
My childhood was marked by my love of art and the tutelary depiction of a sculptor ancestor at Rodin's. My family history is made up of glorious and shattered destinies. My heritage is imbued with the idea that you can create with your hands and live several lives.
I have both studied visual arts and management, I have driven numerous development projects, I directed a visual arts training school, and I finally chose sculpture as my main medium.
I shape faces in clay, the fragile, malleable material of the origins. Then I fix them into a ceramic or bronze. Thus, undeformable, they become an unavoidable creation in our life space, "making face" as Levinas says, and they impose their questioning on us.
Sculpture is like that: one can't escape it.
My work explores interiority, the relationship with others, exile, filiation...
I have been exhibiting my work since 2011. Some have joined private collections. Others continue to travel through exhibitions, residencies and places of memory.
For me, sculpting means collecting the traces of what has been experienced. Offering a presence. And sometimes, a part of eternity.
"My work leads me into the world of Human beings".
I seek souls. I seek to capture interiority, a part of dream, of what is hidden, the invisible trace of their story. Their pains, their cracks, their strengths too.
By fixing immobile faces into clay, I seek to bring out what is in fact unfixed and moving.
In this quest, I allow myself to be inhabited. I observe what these faces reveal about ourselves, the bond they weave. I listen to the music playing inside them, that always reveals a reflexion of our shared humanity. This is how I work as a sculptor: within a diversity of beings who always remind us of what clay we are made of.
Series and Reveries
I always dig in the same furrows like a farmer working his land. Images that question me all the time, complete imaginations that open up while dialoguing with the material. I give them the name Reveries to honor Gaston Bachelard, who wrote beautifully about how clay can be a source of creativity. These fields of creation become a series, which are constantly pursued. Below are a few of them.
Exile
"My family heritage is forged around exile, the quest for identity, geographical mixing, and the value of multicultural origins. People appear to be like a forest of various tree species, extracted from the same soil, the same earth.
From this earth I mould body envelopes and it is the links between them that I am interested in."
In this earth I mould fleshly envelopes and it's the links between them that interest me.
Icons
"I shape faces as a way of reaching out to others, making them exist, letting them question me".
Are there two of us?
"The body hides as well as it reveals who we are. The face serves as a mirror to view the other as a reflection of ourselves: Am I the same person? Are we two?"
Immortal envelopes
"The ephemerality of memory. The struggle to keep alive images faded by time. A record of what history has made of us. Fragile bronze. Fragments of eternity."
Three Melancholies
"In Mythology, the Three Graces of mythology were the goddesses of charm, beauty, and creativity, both young and naked, and created by men. Leaning over our women's cradles, today's fairies give us absence, memory, and reverie as gifts."
Trophies
"L’espèce humaine est-elle reconnaissable à son enveloppe mortelle? Je me suis amusée à regarder en arrière depuis un prochain siècle.
Trophées d’espèces des XXIIème – XXIVème siècles, issus de la collection d’antiquités du Musée Xiao Tuang (Chine)."
