Li Chevalier, encre et âme

Born in Beijing in 1961, Li Chevalier is a Chinese-born French visual artist with a unique career and an intense body of work, fuelled by a fertile imagination drawing inspiration from Asian and European cultures. Using Chinese ink, water and sand, she composes a subtle blend on her canvas, leaving ample room for chance, for the unexpected. Combining Eastern visual art forms with the human soul that lies at the heart of Western tradition, the artist has opened a new field of aesthetic and sensory exploration, forever seeking lost beauty. - 'By crafting ink, Li Chevalier gives it a soul, filled with horizons, with figurative and abstract thoughts. In order to make the portrait of this artist, I followed her creative process, her questions and artistic research. Her black and white universe inspired me to choose to film the material - the black ink, the water, the white canvas - to create poetic, unique, sometimes strange images. I endeavoured to create a link between the past and the present where Lico the dancer embodies the artist's double, her youth and aspirations.' Bernard Louargant