From the top of his nacelle, Iota polishes the last details of the mural thatshe has been realizing since last monday. thisFor the fourteenth edition of the Dijon MUR, a young woman suspended in the clouds will be represented at the corner of rue d’Assas and rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The inauguration will take place this Saturday, January 29, and the fresco can be admired for three months.
– Pauline Boudier
A painter in the cold Dijon
– Pauline Boudier
It was following the withdrawal of the artist Néan that the Belgian artist was finally chosen. The mural she created depicts a woman who appears to be floating in clouds, or fog. Iota too, floats in the Dijon fog when she paints: she is perched almost ten meters away on a nacelleand the days are sometimes long: “at the end of the day, it’s a bit difficult, that’s why I try to take breaks regularly in the bar which is just opposite.” It must be said that painting in winter is not the most comfortable: “it’s more the hands that suffer, especially with the bombs that I use: the gas contained in it is very cold, so after a while, I no longer feel my fingers.”
– Pauline Boudier
The artist above all
– Pauline Boudier
This is the first time that a woman has taken part in this project in Dijon. But for Iota, the place of women in the world of urban painting is a non-topic: _“I find it good that in recent years, the work of female artists has been put forward, but I think that above all we must value the work of the artist.”For her who started graffiti with men, she does not feel any discrimination or any particular enhancement in relation to her gender. What amuses her, however, is that she is often asked if she is committed to the feminist cause within urban painting: “one often has the impression that I am engaged at this level because my favorite subjects are women, but it is more for the aesthetics of the female body than by personal commitment.”_