BIO

AMIE (France, 1995) is a visual artist based between Sydney and Seoul, whose practice unfolds as a self-contained world where an initial sense of softness gives way to a lingering bitterness.

AMIE visual language is characterized by dreamlike qualities, including elementary forms, simplified perspectives, and attenuated settings from which saturated subjects emerge. At the center of this universe, a recurring figure concealed beneath a silk robe and boxing gloves engages in a silent dialogue with cuddly plush companions, simultaneously intrusive and comforting, and functioning as totems that anchor each composition.

Through the concept of Neo-Doudou, AMIE investigates how comfort mutates into an interface of intimate surveillance and a tool for the commodification of emotions. The artist’s images result from a process of sampling childhood memories, cinematic fragments, and cultural icons, recomposed into freeze-frames that deliberately blur the boundary between screen and canvas. The viewer is first lured into a seductive aesthetic, yet through the recurring presence of subtitles as a signature device, is guided from tender absurdity toward lucid unease, ultimately unsettling the trust placed in images, language, and objects.

Articulated through figurative painting, printmaking, sculpture, and collectible figures, the artist’s body of work articulates tensions between intimacy, control, and memory. By generating new dreams from the visual debris of a hyperconnected age, AMIE opens a space where the viewer is first invited to feel, and then compelled to doubt.