Camille Bardin — March 2021

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IIt was a vital impulse that drove Séverine Assouline to become an artist. In 2012, she laid the foundation stone and modeled her first body: that of a sandstone dinosaur weighing over a hundred kilograms. Through sheer determination, and despite being self-taught, Séverine Assouline acquired both technical and semantic skills. The works that followed this initial success were initially introspective, a way for her to begin a process of deconstruction, to question femininity, its masquerade, and with it, the way she herself inhabits the world.