Biography
Born in 1999 in Paris
Lives and works in Paris
Raphaëlle Benzimra graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023, the same year she won the Bertrand Demandolx-Dedons prize. Her work was presented in 2022 at M93 in Saint-Ouen, at Galerie Jean Collet in Vitry-sur-Seine for Novembre à Vitry and at Tour Orion in Montreuil. In 2023, she will take part in the CRUSH exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and present pieces at Sample in Bagnolet. She takes part in the Encore! Fonds de dotation, in La Rochelle in June-July 2024.
In her work, the artist explores glory, violence and the spiritual quest through men depicted in powerful scenes. Inspired by medieval and Renaissance painting, she revisits classic texts such as “Paradise Lost” and the Bible, highlighting their universal resonance in our contemporary era. With a style that blends the precision of miniatures with vibrant colors, her paintings captivate with their rich detail and luminosity. Each painting reveals itself as a complex mosaic, unifying fragments of narrative into a single visual narrative. Boxing often appears in his drawings and paintings to draw parallels between this universe and biblical tradition, as boxing and religion both condense and ritualize, in his eyes, human violence.
Artworks
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Le Paradis Perdu : Pandémonium
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Terence Crawford
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Le Paradis Perdu : Démons pillant un volcan
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Le Paradis Perdu : Lucifer enchaîné dans l’abîme
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Le Paradis Perdu : Lucifer et Belzébuth en conversation
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Les Paradis Perdus (gravures)
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Portrait de Montien
