Artwork information

Category

Painting

Technique

Aerosol and acrylic paint on canvas

Date

2025

Dimensions

30 cm x 30 cm

Dimensions with frame33 cm x 33 cm

Signature

Signed

Proof(s) of authenticity

Painting sold with a certificate of authenticity.

State of conservation

Very good

Framing

Yes

Location

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Description

GAIA, a hybrid figure with a pop-surrealist spirit.

With her, Nef reinvents the contemporary portrait: a vibrant harmony, a fusion of cultures, techniques, and sensibilities.

Nef invites you to dive into a world where imagination transcends reality. Sensitive Elements unveils a surreal universe through a series of hybrid portraits exploring the encounter between the human, nature, and the cosmos.

Faces neither fully human nor entirely other, suspended somewhere between dream and dystopia.
Each painting becomes the mirror of an inner metamorphosis. These silent figures appear both fragile and eternal, as if they had always existed in the threshold between our world and another.

Here, mutation is not a rupture but a gentle, almost tactile fusion — a kind of porosity.
Each face becomes a threshold, a point of passage between inside and outside, between the intimate and the universal.

With Sensitive Elements, NEF creates a sensitive cartography of the living — a mythology without gods, inhabited by entities that feel, watch, and offer a new way of telling our humanity.

Provenance

Artist's Studio

The artist

Painter
Drawer

Nef

Born in 1977
France

Bio

Nef, born in 1977, lives and works in Lyon. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon and graduated with honors. Nef has been drawing since childhood.

A multi-disciplinary artist, she developed a body of experimental video and installation work (participating in international festivals), then continued her creative work with the Nef&bze© graphic studio (focusing on electronic music). Then, in 2021, she became a professional painter.

Her poetic works deal with questions of Man, Nature, emotions and feelings. Artist Nef transports us into a world of gentleness and surrealism through a series of contemporary pop portraits. Each of her works is a bold fusion of vivid color and subtle detail, or a search for chiaroscuro in black and white, creating a unique aesthetic.

Her faces defy convention, inviting the viewer to explore the depths of the human soul while capturing the essence of contemporary art. She takes pleasure in revealing the absurd, the grotesque or contemporary disenchantment, through portraits with playful looks and often evocative titles.

Nef is a sensitive and sincere artist who likes to mix techniques and media: experimentation and evolution are part of her approach.

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