Nathalie Coste
Nathalie Coste
Nathalie Coste, Victory and Happiness, mixed media, wallpaper, video, sound, 190 cm X 400 cm. Photography by Tessa Hallmann.
When the female body is reduced to digital fragments, what happens when we try to put the pieces back together? As I dived into the fragmented image of the female body in the digital age I tried to define how aesthetic constraints or trends shape our identities through expectations, both seen and unseen.
The Education of Love, copy after Titian (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1488-1576), attributed to Reynolds, Joshua (English painter, writer, and collector, 1723-1792), Beecroft Art Collection.
Biography
I’m Nathalie Coste, a French visual artist based in Southeast London. My work, primarily sculptural, is inspired by my family history and the weight of ancestors, exploring how these legacies shape our identities. I combine recycled materials and low-tech devices to create immersive sculptures that challenge the boundaries between the physical and digital.
In Victory and Happiness, I examine how social media and digital imagery fragment and manipulate the female body. These distorted images, reassembled and idealized, shape our perceptions of beauty, success, and happiness. Through my work, I aim to reflect on how these external pressures, combined with ancestral history, influence how we see ourselves and our bodies in today’s visual world.