In December 2022 she was contacted by the New York gallery who discovered her work on social media. “I didn’t believe it at first,” she said. And she says that after direct contact with the gallery she understands that “it’s very true. They had selected one of my works for a group exhibition with international artists for ten days in Manhattan from January 20 to 29. »
This work is a large format acrylic on canvas entitled: “Shark Education”. Enigmatic title that was not originally intended. “It’s spontaneous, he explains, the more I go on and the more the painting speaks to me. The title, in fact, evokes this school system which puts children very early on in the face of competition. “We immerse the children in a world of sharks,” she says.
Isabelle therefore finds herself obliged to send her painting to the United States. You then need to make a wooden crate and pay return costs for an 80kg crate. The canvas must be in Manhattan by January 16th. She so she created a Leetchi pot online to collect donations to help finance the expenses of this exhibition, but harbors the secret hope “that there will be no return and that the painting will be sold. »
