Exhibitions 2013 March, «Regards croisés», collective exhibition, Café des Négociants, Nantes 2013 March, «La nuit tous les chats sont gris», collective exhibition, Manufacture des Tabacs, Nantes 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 October, open doors of artist's studios, Versailles 2012 October, collective exhibition, Bibliothèque Centrale, Versailles 2012 October,«Exubérance Baroque», collective exhibition, Centre de Musique Baroque, Versailles 2010 Project in the Ste Elisabeth school «Opéra comique et arts plastiques», Paris 2010 May, collective exhibition, la sirène gallery, Le Mans 2009 March, «Microcosme végétal», in FIT, Nantes 2009 Project in St Joseph «Petites histoires de l'art», Le Mans 2009 January-February, «L'autre galerie éphémère», Le Mans 2008 November-January, le rayon Vert gallery, «Petit marché de l'art», Nantes 2008 May-June, «Paysage», le rayon vert gallery, Nantes 2008 Mars-Avril, «végétal», la sirène gallery, Le Mans 2007 December-January, drawing, la sirène gallery, Le Mans 2007 November-January, le rayon vert gallery, «Petit marché de l'art», Nantes 2006 Janvier, Le temple du goût gallery, Nantes 2005 June-September, Château de la Groulais, Blain 2004 April, Rayon Vert Gallery, «Eloge de la couleur», Nantes 2004 January-February, La Laverie Gallery, La Ferté-Bernard		2003 November-December, Rayon Vert Gallery, «Petit marché de l'art», Nantes 2003 October, Ephémère Gallery, Le Mans 2002 December, at Michael Page, Nantes 2001 September-December, Concept of nature in contemporary art, in collaboration with Beausoleil School, Cesson-Sévigné 2001 November-January, «Kunst supermarkt», Berlin-Frankfurt 2001 April, Jean Boucher Gallery, Cesson-Sévigné 2000 November-January, «Kunst supermarkt», Frankfurt 1998 November-December, Meissner Gallery, Frankfurt 1997 April, «Végétations», Café Littéraire Ypsillon, Frankfurt Educational background 1993 Art School, Angers. DNSEP option art Words from J.P. Paillard Christèle Lefay's work is given without any declared intention. Her personal development remains mysterious. Time is not reported. The outcome is unexpected and though paradoxically familiar, probably coming from our dreams. Creation is there : a new world arises. However, not only is it the product of our imagination, on the contrary, reality is disclosed there. Naturalness appears suddenly in the midst of artifice, and turns out to be altered, unrecognizable.		It becomes the content, the impulse, the very vital beating. In colours, overlapping in transparency, with rough appearance, and fluctuating between abstract and figurative, forms reveal themselves. Most of the time off-camera, the very close framing lets our imagination wandering. Limits are abolished. The scale is not given. Is perspective huge and space unlimited ? Are we scrutinizing the tiny world in the lens of a microscope ? We try out the lose of reference points. The micro-macro process allows to see and focus on a tiny universe. Immensity greets our eyes. It is a world from origins which blooms in primitive and simple forms. It is like intermediate towards sense, a pass to material. It is vegetal. This world is a becoming. It asks nothing but to be born again. Pollen is spreading there : a spining round pollen, spreading in space in order to organise it. The spectator wonders. The keys are not provided. He does though experience that new world. It is not that of every-day life, not even that of vegetal or delinquent nature in a space of artifice. Hasn't he already traveled through this maze ? And what about this empathy to a universe he recognizes ?