Mathilde Nourrisson

Mathilde Nourrisson (born 1999 in Reims, France) is a visual artist and puppet manufacturer. After graduating in printmaking from the École Estienne, followed by a master's degree in plastic arts from the Sorbonne, it was in 2020 that she built her first human-sized puppet. Since then, her large family of puppets has gone from strength to strength. As a multimedia artist, she stages her textile puppets in installations and videos. Sensitive to notions of injunction, difference and community, she builds her folklore and strange characters with tenderness. Her works engage the sense of touch through their soft, supple or gentle materiality. Always manipulable, her characters remain puppets, although the artist draws on the figures of the comforter, the robot and the scarecrow.