A writing project: L’Automate aux Bleus Océans, an upcoming poetry collection.
About
I have often sought a way to express myself beyond words. Today, painting, sculpture, and writing have become my preferred languages, a space where I can explore and convey what resides within me. My name is Ilona Paris, I am 23 years old, holding a degree in Arts and Design, and for the past five years, I have been painting to give life to those emotions and questions that seem universal to me: those about the body, identity, and the quest for self.
Painting, sculpting, writing: ways to converse with the invisible.
My relationship with material has always fascinated me. Touching, shaping, mixing: this is where, for me, a great part of the magic of art lies. These gestures, though simple, allow for the expression of complex things, to speak without a word, to create invisible connections between the artwork and the one who observes it.
Ma vision
My works often arise from personal questioning, reflections on the body, its fragilities, its power, and on identity—those fragments of ourselves that change and are constantly reconstructed. These are themes I have lived through, and it is by exploring them that I’ve understood how deeply they resonate with many of us. Art has become for me a way to speak differently, to free myself, and to make my voice heard. This is how I chose to turn silence into strength, a voice that speaks to the universal. For, in my view, creating is about sharing, questioning, and building bridges between what we feel and what we dare to show.
My ambitions
Through my creations, my wish is to open a space where everyone can find themselves, reflect, and feel. I love the idea that art can liberate, reassure, or simply invite us to look at the world differently. Painting, sculpture, or writing, each piece is an attempt to raise questions about our human relationships, about the connections that shape and redefine us, but also about our own relationships with ourselves, even when they are difficult to share at times. What matters most to me is to nurture this dialogue between my works and those who encounter them.