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Mademoiselle Maurice, born Marie Saudin in Annemasse, January 31, 1984, is a french visual artist. She is known for her origami works, rainbow colors and monumental installations, but also practices painting and other mixed media.She explores themes such as human nature, her relation to the environment, ecology. Her ephemeral works consist mostly of paper and threads, usually in the colors of the rainbow, thus making reference to the Rainbow Warrior of Greenpeace, to the rainbow nation, to the Rainbow flag, which corresponds to the LGBT movement. Associated with the street-art movement, the artist exhibits freely in the public space around the world.Associated with the urban art movement, the artist exhibits freely in the public space around the world.

Biography
Marie Saudin grew up in Haute-Savoie. Graduated in interior design at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon, she worked for an architectural firm in Geneva before starting her career in urban art in 2009, under the name of Mademoiselle Maurice.

In 2010, she moved to Japan for various artistic projects but she returned hastily in March 2011 because of the nuclear accident in Fukushima. The catastrophe will trigger the artist's anti-nuclear militancy and more generally its current artivism. In 2012, she made her first installation of origami paper on the street in Paris unveiling the word "NO" and inspired by the legend of one thousand origami cranes. The artist is now represented by the Mathgoth Gallery, located rue Hélène-Brion, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. This gallery also represents other artists of the urban art movement, such as Jace, Isaac Cordal and Jef Aérosol.

Mademoiselle Maurice shares her working time between Paris and a workshop in Marseille, located in the Belle-de-Mai district. She is very active on social networks.

Style
Mademoiselle Maurice's subjects are essentially based on the art of folding called origami. Her works, inspired by this popular art of paper, created in China, two thousand years ago, then developed in Japan, are glued on walls of concrete, cement and often associated with a wide range of colors evoking the Rainbow.

Her creations, heterogeneous, unexpected, develop randomly facades of buildings, on the street, in opposition to the "gray of concrete" and subject to the eyes of passersby.The artist combines the art of lace, embroidery with the ancestral art of origami in a personal way. According to the Swiss contemporary art website Widewalls, Mademoiselle Maurice uses five different models to create her works: the bird, the crane, the flower, the boat and the wind which are elements used in the origami design.

Years 2011 and 2012
Mademoiselle Maurice creates a scenography of 1,200 m2 during a Japanese festival organized in Paris in 2011. The following year, she is selected for an artistic installation in the United Kingdom. That same year, the British architecture website, Bettery Magazine, organized a meeting between Mademoiselle Maurice and Disabled Athlete Aimee Mullins, which will culminate in the creation of the ephemeral work "Take one, Give one".

Year 2013
In February, on the occasion of Waste Reduction Week, Louis Vuitton offers an awareness campaign in its offices to highlight the importance of the economy and the recycling of paper. Mademoiselle Maurice will then make an origami portrait of Louis Vuitton from recycled paper in the wastebaskets. The following month, the artist invests the large space under the rotunda of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, with and for the brand Post-it.

In August, Mademoiselle Maurice creates an installation on a wall thirty meters long of a hospital in Singapore, in order to share a message of sensitivity to organ donation and blood donation. She collaborated the next month with the artist Sarah Applebaum and together make an installation between San Francisco and Oakland, for Vice Magazine. The same month, she invests the Olympic stadium of Athens with a monumental work on the occasion of the fifteen years of Action Aid.

In October, she sets up an artwork in Kosice in Slovakia as part of the Nuits blanches (Biela noc in Slovak).

Year 2014
At the beginning of the year, she spoke on Le Mur, rue Oberkampf in Paris. In May, the artist participates in the first edition of the Artscape festival in Malmö, Sweden.

In August of the same year, she participated in the festival Emergence in Naxos in Sicily. The following month, she participated in the Hiyeaf Festival in Haikou, China, and in October, she made an installation as part of a group show at the piscine Molitor. During the month of December, she did an installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

Year 2015
In February, Mademoiselle Maurice installs a work in Paris for the program "Blue Peter" of the BBC, then in March, she presents with Art Azoï an installation at The Parc de La Villette. During the month of May, she sets up a suspension at the National Museum of Singapore.

From September 5 to October 4, 2015, the artist exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre in the collective exhibition "Design is rain and shine" at the Paris Design Week event.

During the same period, on the occasion of the release of the new logo of Google, she participated in the event by performing an installation in the old Berlin airport "Tempelhof". She then realized a monumental installation on the castle of Mogère in Montpellier and then went to Mexico for a photo shoot and the realization of anamorphose from origamis on a wall. The generated visual is used to highlight the Nexus 9 tablet.

For the end of year celebrations, the Ministry of Culture (France) has entrusted its spaces of the sites of Valois and Bons-Enfants to the visual artist and the association Art Azoï.

Year 2016
In March, Mademoiselle Maurice exhibits at the Paris urban art gallery Mathgoth, then from May 17, 2016, associated with the device "Culture NoMad", from the Psychotherapy Center of Ain, located in Bourg-en-Bresse, she imagines a monumental installation, ephemeral fresco, on the facade of the chapel of the center. This work will be inspired on the basis of origamis made by hundreds of participants.

The same year, the artist collaborates with the creator Issey Miyake to imagine a visual on the perfume L'Eau d'Issey "City Blossom" as well as installations in the shops of the creator (New York, Tokyo, London and Paris). She will then exhibit two pieces as part of the collective exhibition "A moment in time" at the Saatchi gallery in London.

The Maryland railway station of the Great Eastern Main Line, located in the London Borough of Newham, benefits from the action of "Mademoiselle Maurice" who, that year, creates a sixty-five-meter-long fresco. This one is composed of multiple tiles of faience painted in a series of different colors.

In June, Mademoiselle Maurice realizes her largest installation in Paris and entitled "Lunar Cycles". It is the largest artistic fresco realized in Paris intramural, with a size of approximately 2,000 m2. The building is 140 meters long and 15 meters high. Because of the weather conditions incompatible with an installation made from paper, the artist will invent what she calls the "Maurigamis", a kind of stencil that takes the aesthetics of origami but reproduced in painting. The "maurigamis" will complete the first origamis of paper already installed on the wall of the city Paul Bourget in the 13th district of Paris.

In October, the artist leaves for Brazil with the artist SNEZ (forming their duet emes crew) for several artistic and socio-cultural installations. [https://www.radar.st/francscolleurs During the same period, she participated in the "Francs-Colleurs" event with the 9e Concept artists' collective. The project "Francs Colleurs" brings together 46 artists to work around a common graphic form, the drop, and to publish stickers to paste them in small or giant format, in the form of installations in the street.]

Year 2017
During this time, she collaborates with WWF and Tiger Beer as part of the awareness campaign to help fight the illegal tiger trade.