Anaïs Maar
Biography
Anaïs Maar (b. 1993, France) lives and works in Paris, crafting a practice that navigates the raw intersections of intimacy, identity, and mythology. Exploring themes of sexuality, dysphoria, love, violence, and loss, she constructs layered narratives that challenge conventional representations of femininity and selfhood. Her work, often centered on recurring self-portraits, forms intricate, compulsive motifs—both an introspective map of her inner cosmos and a critique of traditional figurative codes.
Drawing from her background in illustration and animation, Maar integrates dynamic compositions, vibrant palettes, and a strong graphic sensibility. Her artistic process unfolds across multiple mediums and formats, from painting and drawing to large-scale mural work, embodying a duality between structure and chaos. Influenced by Fauvism, Cubism, Russian avant-garde movements, Japanese graphic design, and medieval mythology, her work oscillates between abstraction and figuration, symbolism and spontaneity.
For Maar, painting is both an eruption and a meditation—an elemental force akin to the Mediterranean Sea, which she describes as both serene and tempestuous. Her compositions pulse with emotional intensity, weaving together personal experience and collective myth, forging a visual language that is at once visceral, poetic, and timeless.
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