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After studying graphic arts, Catherine Grandidier spent 15 years of her life as an Artistic Manager in an Advertising Agency. From this “first life”, she has kept three main concepts: the requirements of creation, the magnificence of image and motion, but also the restraint and frustration you feel when you have to make precise, strictly-defined orders that have a short life. This ever increasing frustration has led her to create some objects, more often in connection with light and image. She has then discovered a real interest in Fiat Lux working material and has finally changed her career. One of her first creation was „L?Homme qui court”, a rectangular scene repeating Edward Muybridge?s photographic work of art. Each movement of a running man is split up, prolonged, and amplified with light and additional diffracting material. The first “lighting picture” was born. Others came later on to complete this range. More recently, she has created some pending and floor lamps to enlarge her collection. Whatever her projects, she does not intend to give Light a formal or aesthetic quality. She wants to use it as a material. Light then reveals the other components it is associated with. Her way of working is to superimpose materials, to transform them by rolling and splitting them up. Drawing has a very relative part in her method.

Catherine Grandidier

Industrial designer / Paris / France

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