AMR explores traumatic memories, their physical manifestations and their ultimate transformation through her art - tableaux, often evolving in the direction of sculpture and theatre.
In her studio, and during her artist residences abroad, AMR stages scenarios with models from all walks of life : ordinary people regardless of age, background, and station in life, young students from the Philipines, immigrants in France, garbage recycling workers in Colombia, and many other, all vulnerable men and women.
The focus in her work is to reconstruct and test the limits of interaction between the bodies, both similar and yet unique. Her work stands out in its bold refusal to please conventional aesthetics or philosophical concepts, presenting instead enigmatic tableaux of human bodies, emerging out of a space both undefined and out of time. A troubling mirror of humanity, reflecting who we are, our origins and our mortality.
During the work process, the artist is looking for an authentic encounter between the models and will explore her own emotions, acting as a catalyst for the bodies to express their experience of violence and their capacity for resilience. The resulting images seem real, authentic, as if in flesh and blood.
AMR's work, both human size and smaller, uses props and various techniques such as intervention with a black stone on the prints, and multi-colored works based on Christian themes (polyptiques), collages using images and drawings, spontaneous chalk drawings, etc. A slow work process and the use of a minimum of accessories and props, often found or recycled objets enhances the impact of her work