Frédérique Stern is a French visual artist who works with fine art photography and collage techniques to create poetic compositions that move between memory, nature, and imagination.
Her work arises from the interplay between archival images, vintage and contemporary magazines and catalogs, and landscapes that resonate with her inner world. Female silhouettes, precisely cut and suspended in open or urban spaces, become floating presences between two realities.
Through layering, cutting, and line; sometimes in gold, inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, Frédérique creates an intimate and contemplative visual language. Each piece evokes a silent narrative, where the personal intertwines with the universal, and what is fragmented becomes whole.
She lives and works between France and Barcelona, and her work has been shown in independent contemporary art spaces.
Her practice explores photography as a medium of symbolic reconstruction and collage as a gesture of connection —across time, place, and sensitivity.
“This artistic path began as a return to myself. In stillness and silence, I discovered that creating was also a form of healing. Cutting, layering, drawing golden lines; each gesture became a ritual, a dialogue with something greater than me. Through images, I seek to open a space where soul, memory, and landscape meet; a place where the invisible takes shape and the intimate becomes universal”
— Frédérique Stern