10/11/2025
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Nathalie Vin: “Anomalie is my new life”
November 10, 2025
Tino Martinez - UEP Mallorca
Anomalie opens its doors on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at Carrer de la Ferreria 37, Palma. It is the first permanent space of the French Spanish artist Nathalie Vin, who specializes in contemporary mosaic and mixed media.
The gallery is both a production studio and an exhibition space—a hybrid format designed to encourage direct dialogue between the creator, the work, and the public. “It’s a place where you can come find me and talk about my work,” Vin tells UEP! Mallorca.
With this opening, Vin fulfills a long-held aspiration: to have her own space to show her work and share it live, without intermediaries. “Before, I worked in places without windows, without water. This Thursday is a magical day for me: it’s a different life,” she sums up.
A studio-gallery in the heart of Anomalie Gallery Palma
Unlike a conventional gallery, Anomalie functions as a living space, with the artist present. Vin will work there daily and show her pieces, offering the chance to understand the creative process from the inside. “It looks like a gallery, but it’s a studio-gallery. The works live here with me,” she says.
She also plans to open the doors to other artists who, like her, have a deep relationship with materials. “I don’t know if I’ll show painters, but yes, people who really master their techniques. Mosaic artists, ceramicists, people who use pigments… people who work the material with their hands.”
“I use plastic to build monumental cities. Gold, on the other hand, to speak of the divine—of what we cannot explain.”
— Nathalie Vin
Mosaic as a contemporary language
Nathalie Vin’s artistic practice starts with mosaic but deliberately distances itself from the classical image associated with the technique. “I don’t make mosaics like the Romans. What I do is much more current, much more contemporary,” she explains. She works with all sorts of materials, especially recycled ones. “I salvage things from broken devices—watches, metals, plastic, fuses… I incorporate it all into my work.”
Recycled plastic is recurrent in her pieces, but so are other elements like gold. “I use plastic to build monumental cities. Gold, on the other hand, to speak of the divine—of what we cannot explain.” The combination of materials lets her express complex ideas with both physical and symbolic dimensions.
An existential gaze
The themes Vin explores are existential. “What interests me in my work is the human being—everything that unites us,” she says.
Ideas such as "death", "pain", "the mysteries of the cosmos", "the search for meaning"…
Her work contemplates the big questions shared by all cultures. “For example, all human beings dream of snakes. It’s an image that repeats everywhere. That interests me a lot: the collective subconscious.”
There is also a fascination with mathematics and the universe. “The number Pi is fundamental. With it you can calculate space launches. Pi is nature.” In one of her recent pieces, she explores sounds arriving from outer space that scientists transform into music. “If you look closely at this work, you’ll see a musical score that comes from the universe.”
Despite the symbolic and emotional charge of her work, Vin avoids labeling it as spiritual. “It isn’t spiritual. It’s an analysis. An observation of the human being. Why do we all react the same to death, war, lies?”
From education to art
Before dedicating herself fully to art, Vin worked in the education sector. “I worked in the MBA field, traveling a lot to recruit students,” she recalls. That phase let her get to know many realities, but it didn’t meet her need for expression. “Although it was also about knowledge and learning—not so far from what I do now—it was very far from who I am today.”
The decision to move to Palma came after a period in London. “I wanted a better life, like many people. I fell in love with Mallorca and decided to come live here.” Anomalie therefore represents a return to family roots—her mother is from the Canary Islands—and also a vital turning point.
“I’ve begun to find people with a lot of talent in Mallorca—people with real mental depth and great manual skill. That’s what I’m looking for: from the mind to the hands.”
— Nathalie Vin
From the mind to the hands
With the opening of this space, Vin also begins a new collective stage. Her intention is to invite other artists who share a similar material-based and conceptual approach. “I’ve begun to find people with a lot of talent in Mallorca—people with real mental depth and great craftsmanship. That’s what I’m looking for: from the mind to the hands.”
Anomalie is proposed as a meeting place for artists who work with technical rigor and an intense gaze on the world. It isn’t a conventional exhibition hall, but a place where the process is as valuable as the result. “It’s a gathering of minds, of people who love art,” she says.
This Thursday, November 13, the public will be able to meet Nathalie Vin in person and discover her creative universe at Anomalie—an opportunity to see the works and also to talk with the artist and closely understand a practice that unites material, consciousness, and observation of the world.
Tino Martinez - UEP
L’artista Nathalie Vin inaugura Anomalie, el seu estudi-galeria a Palma, un espai on treballa, exposa i convida a dialogar amb l’art.
