Les Papiers d'Elie

Step into a world of fragments and emotions

For over a decade, I have been exploring the art of paper collage much like one explores a living memory.

Using paper fragments, forgotten images, and materials weathered by time, I create unique works that are at once intimate and universal.

Each composition is a visual narrative. Colors converse with textures, silhouettes emerge, and contrasts take hold.

Nothing is left to chance: every element is meticulously chosen, cut, and assembled to evoke an emotion, a resonance, or a story.
The past serves as raw material; the present, as a playground. Vintage magazines, colored papers, found images, anonymous fragments...

The materials themselves hold a memory. By reassembling them, I give them a new life—a blend of nostalgia and modernity.

The artworks thus become spaces of transition, suspended between what once was and what is coming into being.

Themes of memory, identity, and transformation run through the entire body of work.

Who are we, once we have been recomposed by our memories, our ruptures, and our metamorphoses?

Here, paper collage becomes a language—a poetic way to question our relationship with time and with ourselves. It is an invitation to a visual journey.

To view these works is to agree to slow down. To lose oneself for a moment in the details, to let the eye wander, and to project one’s own story onto the piece. Each creation opens a door—to a buried memory, a subtle emotion, or a personal interpretation.

To discover the full collection of paper collages is to enter a cohesive, sensitive universe where each piece engages in a dialogue with the others while retaining its own unique character.