All my work is based on photography, digitally manipulated and most of the time presented as diptych or triptych

MAUVE & GREY HUES

Architecture and flowers: a city idyll

Wandering for hours, days or months even years around cities (here Paris) to chase the urban writings for my photo-collages is not enough any more. To look up became a necessity, to scrutinize the heights an obsession.
Up there prevails a different world from the one on the sidewalks. Chimneys, turrets, antennas stand. Terraces on which we would willingly have a drink spread out. Without taking into account the shambles of bull's-eyes, dormers, pipes, bars, ladders from which by any chance a bird will fly off. Hardly higher the wavy lines of airplanes dream to escape. 

Opposites have my preference. When flowers marry concrete. Disagreement match. Contrasts enhance one another:
Finally because I love all flowers being wild flowers, from the forests, found in lost islands in the Pacific or perched in the Andean Cordillera. @evelynechevallier.com


CITY IDYLL (staff picks #color)

Projects

My work, made of photography and streetart,  is at the crossroads of Art and Documentary Photography. Devil is in the details? - Details in my photo-collages work are committed to explain the whole.

STREET-ART-PHOTO-COLLAGES

Digital photo collage of graffiti pictures added to a main background to create a purpose. Here the main purpose being climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE

This triptych is made of a background photograh of a turquoise wave in Easter Island, on which I gathered 3 graffited streetart characters.
"These photo collages take us across a graffitied world, on a journey into the daubed painted word of people living in cities such as Buenos Aires, New York, Montreal, Madrid and Paris. Each image a memento of a mark, a declaration of existence by the anonymous, those that have a need to make themselves known, express their innermost fears, desires, love.

All graffiti is the expression of life, there is an immediacy to it from the simplest tag to the most intricate stencilled painting, each a graphic expression, an idea rooted in the culture of that society. For Chevallier these public declarations moved her to record them. And as she travelled she collected those pictures that struck a chord, formulating and indexing them, re-imagining and re-interpreting the meaning behind the images to create a new form; photo collages of what she had seen on her wanderings along the streets of the worlds greatest cities."

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EVELYNE CHEVALLIER