Tracing the intimate, capturing the unseen
Frédérique Samama black stone art emotion perfectly sums up the work of this artist, who explores the body and emotion through intense, silent compositions. Using black stone and tight framing, she opens a path to the intimate—where words fail and images become pure vibration.
Between abstraction and figuration
Trained at the Auguste Renoir School of Applied Arts, Frédérique Samama first honed her eye in auction houses, working as an auctioneer’s clerk. This daily contact with artworks shaped her refined, cultured approach. In 2018, during her first solo exhibition, her artistic voice emerged with clarity. She deepened her research at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in Philippe Jourdain’s life model sculpting workshop.
Frédérique Samama and art
Since then, she has tirelessly explored the human form through pared-down, frontal compositions in which faces and hands take center stage. Black stone has become her tool of choice, for the depth of its blacks, their vibrating intensity, and their evocative power. She draws, rubs, erases. Her lines are deliberately open and unfinished, inviting the viewer to step into the image, extend the gesture, and project their own silences onto the work.
A tension between strength and fragility
Her works are not only visual—they are sensory experiences. The backgrounds, textured with materials and chance marks, contribute to the tension of the whole. Each canvas becomes a space of resonance, where subject and environment engage in dialogue. Frédérique Samama paints a fragile truth, an inner vibration that escapes fixed narratives.
Presence on the art scene
A member of the Taylor Foundation and the Maison des Artistes, Frédérique Samama exhibits at major French salons—Salon d’Automne, Salon des Artistes Français, Salon des Beaux-Arts—as well as internationally, from Tokyo to Bonn, Remagen, and the Netherlands. Her awards, such as the Expressionism Prize at the Salon d’Automne and the Creativity Prize in Palermo, confirm the strength and uniqueness of her artistic voice.
An inhabited and open work
The canvases of Frédérique Samama black stone art emotion do not tell a story—they open a space. A suspended, essential encounter in which one does not simply look, but truly feel.
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