Anne-Marie Schneider

The work of Anne-Marie Schneider (b. 1962, Chauny, France) presents an enigmatic universe of dismantled bodies, banal objects, domestic scenes, legends, and black humor revelatory of stormy and violent relationships. Line is the fundamental element in the enunciation of this imagery. With it she carries out a psychographic exercise, a gestural writing understood as an event. It comes as no surprise that her influences include not only visual artists like Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois but also such key literary figures as Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf, since drawing serves as a stimulus for her imagination, favoring an interplay of motifs analogous to literature.