Born in 1963, Catherine Ursin is a visual artist, poet and performer. She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts d’Angers. In parallel with her artistic practice, she leads plastic creation workshops for students and academics.
In 2021, she works for Lyon 3 University, for which she creates a mural on the theme of water, a temporary installation called la liberté ou la mort and performs Encore est un temple.
In 2023, she presents her exhibition Tu me veux blanche, je ne suis que noire et rouge at La Rage gallery in Lyon, and Résister est un verbe qui se conjugue toujours au présent in 2024 at the Maison du Patrimoine de Villard-de-Lans in the Vercors.
From pictorial gestures on the floor to the experience of performance, the body lies at the heart of his work. The body is drawn, sculpted, photographed, performed, spoken, written… It appears as a link between past and future, a suspended moment between rupestral and sidereal in perpetual motion.
With visual artist and sculptor Christine Coste, they create several joint performances at Le Générateur in 2022, which they perform in a hurry and in which they play with the boundaries between different artistic media: Illico / trace with Nikola Kapetanovic, Illico / in locus with Nikola Kapetanovic, Illico / passage.
” The work of visual artist Catherine Ursin is transgressive, heteroclite, unclassifiable. Yet the body, monstrous and masterful, constantly reinvested in all its plasticity, invariably delivers a reflection on the invisible, the unnamable, the unalterable clash of existence. “
G. Braquet
” Painter, sculptor, performer, she believes that art can repair the entropy of the world. A response to the violence that pierces flesh and soul. Against immolation, the word of the poet. Rallying the living, honoring the dead. Catherine Ursin’s work is a kind of refoundation. An enterprise that does not speak its name. The work fascinates in a double movement of attraction and dread.”
Marie Girault (in Catherine Ursin, Le corps monde (extrait), Artension N°141)