About Karine Mimoun,
French Mixed-Media artist

Karine Mimoun is a French mixed-media artist who has developed a practice entirely her own: large-format works that are simultaneously paintings and sculptures, built up in relief from hundreds of individually sculpted faces, each one distinct in form, expression and trompe-l’oeil treatment, assembled into fractal compositions where the individual dissolves into the collective and the fragment gives rise to the force of the symbol. Her work is immediately recognisable, technically demanding, and guided by a single founding conviction: that beneath the singularity of every human face, something holds us together.

At the foundation of her practice, Karine Mimoun has chosen the human face as her tesserae. Each face is sculpted by hand in clay, moulded, cast in plaster, then painted drawing directly from the natural world, the mineral, the organic, the elemental, as a reminder of our deep connection to the matter from which we are made.

Assembled on sculptural grounds whose textured reliefs radiate outward from the central figure, these faces give rise to symbols whose force far exceeds the sum of their parts. The experience of encountering these works is threefold: first hypnotic, as the eye moves from fragment to fragment, each face unique in its expression and surface; then seized by the power of the emerging symbol; finally meditative, held by the quiet continuous energy of the textured field that surrounds it.

What distinguishes this work is the convergence of the sculptural, the natural and the humanist into a single philosophical proposition. At a moment when questions of identity, belonging and collective memory are among the most urgent in contemporary culture, Karine Mimoun’s practice offers something rare: a visual language of genuine originality that asks what it means to exist as an individual within a collective consciousness, and what we are building together as fragments of a shared humanity.