« And what about doing it differently ? »
Obsessed by this idea, Joanna Flatau never stops to seek the hidden side of things that comes throughout her work.
With onion skin paper, watercolour and few highlights of bold pastels, she composes since 2001 a collection of pieces titled « Tombées des nues » whose unique subject is the face and torso of womankind.

Another series, « Apparitions », with a more restrictive range of brown, ochre, beige colours, stages angels. Obviously androgynous, as they must be, but with few exceptions (since few angels are figured with breast), those figures that so deeply left their marks on the history of Art reappear here in a very unsuspected manner. With their almond-shaped eyes, some of them remind us the icons of the Byzantine Art while keeping their strangeness.

Such a combination of women and angels at idées d’artistes Gallery produces an extraordinaire pictorial expression.
And Joanna Flatau to state :
« What is of the greatest importance for me in bodies, is spirit. I am not interested to execute portraits for itself. I am trying to envision the inner life of my figures. If I have only one ambition, it would be to hand on the emotion. »

Jacqueline Roche-Mérédith