Isabelle Cornaro’s creative process is based on an equilibrium between the object and conceptual art. Her minimal compositions are a personal interpretation of landscapes or structures that she deconstructs to question our perceptions. She plays with her sensitivity and subjectivity, but tones them down by proposing a rational classification. Her work thus tends to move away from formal and aesthetic considerations towards an approach of systematic classification. Isabelle Cornaro positions herself at the antithesis of pop culture by seeking to physically and visually occupy spaces that are still empty. The creative means through which the artist projects herself into the world is thus the conjunction of material components, aesthetic properties, and her positioning in a constantly proliferating universe of objects.

Born in 1974 in Aurillac (France), Isabelle Cornaro graduated in art history from the École du Louvre in 1996 and from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris in 2002. She also studied at the Royal College of Arts in London. She lives and works between Paris and Geneva.