Cadel’s new single ‘Le taire’ is out this week.  The musical, poetic and visual work focuses on one of the feelings most denied to women, the remorse of being a mother. Indeed, she tells us, that her project ‘m.a.t.e.r’ is a co-creation between women artists from different disciplines. It is articulated around artistic residencies where the focus is on portraying, from a feminine point of view, the relationship between ‘being a woman’ and motherhood. The project, which is already underway, will give birth in the coming months to 9 collective creations combining music, poetry and visual arts.

CADEL, the artist behind m.a.t.e.r, is an author, composer and performer. This new collaborative challenge was imposed on her after becoming a mother. This experience changed her life and her artistic balance too. The intensity of being a mother shakes many of her pillars. “I felt the need to express not only my feelings and experiences, but also those of other women. To build a kind of creative tribe,” says Stéphanie, who is behind the artistic name CADEL. It is, for her, the beginning of a reflection that led her to undertake this new and more personal artistic project.

For the first work of the project ‘T’es presque là’ (You‘re almost there), which focused on gestational loss, she collaborated with the Valencian painter Lorena García Mateu. On this occasion, she presents herself together with the painter Inés Navarro, who projected her vision of the feeling of remorse. She says that she works with “simplicity, simple forms and reduced chromatic palettes, always seeking to express the maximum with the minimum”.

Stéphanie relies on her double facet as both an artist and a cultural manager to carry out m.a.t.e.r. She has an established musical career with two albums released via her previous project Stéphanie Cadel et la Caravane. ‘Chanson du voyage’ published in 2014 and ‘Chansons trouvées’ in 2018. She has also published for Radio 3, versions of the theme tunes for the programmes ‘El septimo vicio’ and ‘Mundo Babel’. In terms of cultural management, she has worked with several musical, theatrical and contemporary circus projects.

Report by Will McCarthy

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