Lives between Paris and Toulouse, works in Poush Aubervilliers, France.
Rose Barberat (born in 1994 in Saint-Claude, France) works at Poush, Aubervilliers. She holds a degree in Modern Literature, a master’s in creative writing from the University of Cergy-Pontoise and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. Barberat presented her work at Galerie PACT in 2021 and 2023 and at Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles in 2023. Her work has also been exhibited at MOCO La Panacée in Montpellier in 2023, at the Givon Art Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, at Galerie JO-HS in Mexico City where she has also been resident, in Venice during the Biennale with Galerie Mathilde Le Coz and T&L and at Poush Manifesto in Clichy in 2022, etc.
Her painting questions contemporary issues of representation. Barberat develops a figurative pictorial vocabulary using references to the narrative, the genre of the novel and more specifically to autofiction. In her work, she seeks to provoke a shift, a disorder where doubt interferes between what is probable and what is real. Her paintings are conceived as objects of contemplation and discuss the idea of an artificial staging based on real facts.
Following in the footsteps of French painters such as Jacques Monory - part of the narrative figuration movement - her work is an invitation to see painting as a link with cinema and, more generally, with fiction and storytelling. Her paintings are contemporary dystopias, and the images offer a plurality of readings and interpretations. Color plays a part in modifying the initial impression produced by the scene depicted.
Feminist, pop, delirious, Rose Barberat's paintings play on immersion and experience through color. It is also a painting that tends towards figurative minimalism.
