For the series Diva, Baptiste Léonne has developed an original artistic approach based on mirror reflections and combining painting and photography, thus blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction. His models pose in front of a mirror and he paints on the reflected images. The mirror is absorbed in the work and becomes both image and subject. Each work is a new interpretation which brings to light an intimate, secret and sacred scene, hidden in the shadows.

His work portrays with magical elegance different women, dressed under the painting strokes and sublimated in the mirror reflection. Each portrait seems like a nostalgic illusion of a woman, depicted in a unique way through games of colors and reflections and sharing a common reminiscence of women beauty.

Diva 39, 2020