Emilie McDermott is a French and American artist currently working and living in Paris, France.

She undertook her art studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris where she graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in 2011. She completed her Master of Fine Arts (DNSEP) in June 2013 at The Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC), where she worked alongside art critics and artists such as Frederico Nicolao, Bernard Marcadé and Veronique Joumard.

Her art encompasses video, installation and performance. Blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, she creates immersive environments capturing liminal states on an intimate and confined scale.

Her recent work focuses on questions of departures, which evoke a loss of links with the living, the dead, places and objects that once were but are now left behind. In this space, existing or new rituals and idiosyncrasies can build a bridge between the past and new life : identity is not lost or abandoned but transformed.