One fine day, upon returning from a trip, French artist Marie-Claire Barsotti found her thirteen volumes of Mother's Agenda devoured by termites and now unreadable in her library. Once she got over the initial shock, she wondered how to deal with the disaster.She first thought of burning them or throwing them away, but couldn't bring herself to do it. The red-covered volumes, read and reread, annotated in her own hand, had accompanied her throughout her life and had brought her here, to Auroville.Could there be a message hidden in the extraordinary convolution created by the termites? Had these books been too sacred to her, was this an invitation to merge them into herself, no longer considering them as external entities?For Marie-Claire, the artistic act is a living alchemical process, through which a transformation takes place in the creator and its creation simultaneously. The time had undoubtedly come to let go of the certainties of the past and venture down unknown paths. To show resilience, to surrender.She used the destruction wrought by the insects to rebuild.For nearly two years, she created, with Mother's words and her intuition, her own colours and shapes, poetic and shimmering collages like butterflies emerging from their chrysalis.In a second stage, the Matrices were born, representing a synthesis of the path travelled, an integration of the infinite realities of the world.The Matrices are layered grids of interpretation, each corresponding to a different frequency, from the most troubled to the purest. At the very bottom, we can glimpse the golden vibration of divine consciousness, gradually covered by layers symbolising different planes of existence that are more or less unconscious and negative, up to the threatening grids on the surface that seem to block access.Marie-Claire Barsotti's lyrical abstraction has a contagious power. Behind an apparent difficulty, the alchemist artist opens the way for us to the splendid depths where divisions are abolished and invites us to experience within ourselves this unity that transcends all oppositions.Dominique Jacques 2025

Originally from France, Marie-Claire is based in Auroville, India, where she has developed a deep connection to the community. Marie-Claire is a free spirit, for some years she was involved with design, holoenergetic healing, gave holistic astrology consultations and did teachers’ trainings. She dedicated herself fully to it after realizing that it was her way to nourish and connect to the Divine. Marie-Claire’s work has been featured in numerous art exhibitions since 1987, and she has been represented by various galleries in both France and India.