Lætitia d'Etiolles

Lætitia d'Etiolles's natural anti-conformist leanings and quest for original art places her outside the realm of trend and labels. She is in touch with her primitive soul that transpires in her figurative work at the antipodes of naturalism. Lætitia d'Etiolles does not belong to any specific cultural system. Her art espouses allusive figuration and decorative geometry, wending its way though lateral reading and a web of meaning. The contraposing sign of the snake glides through her creative works. No figure escapes the composite. Woman is both Angel and Amazon. Realms commingle in a hybrid bestiary where mineral becomes alive.
Beings are vested with unbridled double identities. Her cosmogony has fashioned the reptile into the matrix of the world. The rippling, unending lines of the snake inhabit the surface, circle the outer limits, and deploy their curves. Metaphor of the maze, the cobra girdles a tangle of visual webs within the painting, ever-postponing the moment when the viewer reaches the focal point. A circle, most often off-centre or lurking in a corner, marks the end of the beholder's almost initiatory journey. The ocellus shaped circle, the serpent's egg, symbolises sight - a sun-eye fanning out into a mosaic of hyperbola, sources, wells, and planets. It melds and melts into a shower of white, ochre or blue-tinged pearls, scattered across space.