“Like Niki de Saint Phalle, I was considered an image in my early days”

Charlotte Le Bon is Niki de Saint Phalle. In theaters this October 9, the biopic imagined by Céline Sallette looks back on the tormented beginnings of this Franco-American artist, naturalized Swiss, before she became the legendary visual artist, painter, engraver, sculptor and film director that we knows. By taking on the face and voice of Niki, Charlotte Le Bon delivers a powerful performance for this title role and a return to the camera. On this occasion, she arranged to meet us at Idem, an art printing shop in the Montparnasse district of Paris where she also flourishes as a passionate illustrator traveling in the world of drawing, screen prints and lithographs. . During this interview, the 38-year-old artist discusses with us her relationship with art, but also reveals to us the work she would like to steal from a museum or why the feminism of Niki de Saint Phalle is so fundamental to our modern society.