1-3 Catherine Panchout / 2- Roberto Battistini
Candida Romero is a French-Puerto Rican artist born in Paris. She was raised in La Ruche, a Parisian artist community, where she continues to work
in Chagall’s original studio.
Candida’s body of work is a reflection of her interracial and peripatetic up-bringing, where she has established a singular balance between photography and painting, forced compositions and improvisations. She traces, paints and obscures in various ways, on enlarged photographs, overlaying with written text and thereby unraveling the narrative base of her process - the citational quality that hovers around her work - to provide an intense visual experience.
Her recent projects have focused on large scale paintings in series - as many as 75 artworks - notably Les Lettres and Hope and Anguish (ode to James Baldwin), expanding her production to include ceramics, tapestry, sculpture and performances.
Candida runs an art residency program in a former convent in Corsica she has spent the last two decades restoring. She maintains studios in Paris and Switzerland.
