Garance Vallée

Garance Vallée is an artist born in Paris in 1993. After a master's degree in architecture and a specialization in scenography, she has been working in architecture on a smaller scale since 2017. She grew up in an artistic environment. In her father KRIKI's studio, between paintings and punk music, she begins to draw and create objects. Her love for straight lines, she inherits it from her father. Her mother, who has studied art history, will instill in her this culture and will give her this thirst for "knowledge" which contributes to her creativity today.
So since childhood, she draws and builds objects, which she now realizes in her studio with her fiancé.

In 2017, she moved to New York to work in an architecture agency called LOT-EK. This experience will profoundly change her creative process, letting her feelings influence her work. No matter where she is, she can't help but write or jot down something very quickly when an idea comes to mind, inspired by her favorite places, music, and even clothing. Passionate about contemporary art, design, and architecture, her inspiration comes from anywhere but especially from experimentation, current modernism, the 50's and 70's, her travels, and young talents from the avant-garde.

She likes to use everything, she is not locked into a technique or a current of inspiration. In addition, her training as a scenographer allowed her to know how to present her world and to stage her drawings and objects. So each drawing comes from an installation itself. She loves working with a lot of different materials, feeling them, modeling them, having real contact with the textures she uses. Her favorite material is concrete! She often considers her object as small architecture, which is why she likes to use real building materials.