Of her artmaking, Caroline Demangel relates: When I was recently (re) hospitalized, the patients, with all their quirks and idiosyncrasies, inspire me deeply without me even realizing it.
Figurative characters are always very important to me, as they allow me not to feel alone. For example, I create a standing man; a bit like creating a presence, another self, a friend, a double.
There is the urgency and necessity of pictorial language, a sort of ribambelle (multitude) of signs, knots, guts, nuclei (the inside of the body is very present) and ….sometimes words come to me that stand between the sheet and me, asking me to inscribe them.