For more than fifteen years, Amelie Ducommun has explored time, memory, and the “memory of water” as carriers of history and emotion. Through paintings and installations inspired by travel, landscapes, and shifting light, the work reflects on collective memory, uprooting, and humanity’s disconnection from nature in an age of speed and immediacy. Blending personal sensations with poetic interpretations of place, the artist seeks balance between movement and permanence, clarity and ambiguity. The work invites viewers to reconnect with poetry, contemplation, and the emotional “gray areas” often lost in contemporary life, while proposing a more sensitive and harmonious vision of society.
About the artist:
Born in 1983 in Paris, Amélie Ducommun studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the University of Barcelona. She was a resident artist at the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (2009–2011), and has since exhibited internationally, with solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East.
Her work has been presented at major art fairs and biennials, including Beijing and Dakar, and is held in significant public and private collections such as the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Fundación Miró, and the Museum of Fine Arts of Madrid, Mangrove Foundation, Fondation Bernard Magrez…. She is the recipient of the Albert Maignan Prize (Fondation Taylor, 2020) and the Georges Wildenstein Prize (2011).