CHRISTIANE POOLEY

Christiane Pooley is a Chilean artist living in Paris. Shaped by a violent territorial conflict in southern Chile, her work explores the complexities of origin and belonging. Through her paintings, she creates poetic and liminal spaces that blur the boundary between reality and dream, evoking the ephemeral nature of human experience with haunting beauty. In the work created for Une Histoire au Mur, illustrating Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem “If”, the figure blends into the landscape. The desert-like emptiness facing the young man invites us to contemplate the horizon. It symbolizes the path to be traveled—without a clearly defined route—toward becoming “a man,” thus echoing Kipling’s poem “If”.