(b. 1994) Charlotte Foureaux lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, holding a BFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Art (2023). Her work has been exhibited at venues including Västerbottens museum, Galleri Verkligheten in Umeå, HALO studios in Berlin and Brösarps Konsthall. She has recieved grants from Malmö City and is part of the art collective Young Promising Hivemind, which is focused on organising and curating exhibitions around the city of Malmö.

"Most of the time I do not understand what I am doing or why. Just that it is important. I often liken my artistic practice to the writing of an academic text with hypotheses, a creating of lenses and a piecing together of various fragmented theories and facts in order to illuminate something. Though this all takes place on an abstract level where the lines between the components are muddled. Through a nonlinear research-based approach I can ask questions without having to answer them, seek answers to questions not yet formulated and delve into interesting connections without necessarily understanding why.

My working method often begins with a vague idea. This can be a concept, a phrase, a scientific phenomenon, a texture, an organism, a myth or a personal story. From it a world of ideas is created and threads are freely drawn between seemingly alien components. I follow the sprawl in different directions without judging or discriminating. The works take on lives of their own and pull in their own directions, and while a work is in process new nodes appear and are added to the constantly expanding whole. I feel like Viktor Frankenstein, carefully selecting parts from different places to be put together with other parts; parts that were never meant for each other in ways that was never meant. Through fragmentation and abstraction the parts are both stripped of their history but also create a new shared one. Like Frankenstein's monster, it doesn't matter who the left forearm belonged to. Only its relationship to the creature it now belongs to is relevant. In the stitches between the mismatched parts something new start to grow. This something that would never appear between the words of a scientific article, would never exist in a stricter field, but which is allowed to blossom within the field of mad scientists and art."