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ANIMA is an artistic expression born from the interplay between movement and the soul. It is not the soul itself that is animated, but the connection with it that brings life to the gesture.
​ The hand becomes the conduit through which creative energy flows. The artist does not control but rather accompanies a living movement that unfolds freely.
Inspired by the world around them—the landscapes they pass through, the textures, the shifting energies—the artist does not seek to capture reality as something fixed, but rather to create a bridge between the inner and outer worlds, between the personal and the universal.
Each gesture acts as a link, a way of channeling what moves through us and allowing it to take form. The painting emerges organically, carried by a subtle force beyond conscious intent.
Nothing is static; everything is in flux. When the paint dries, it may appear to set a boundary, yet beneath the surface, everything continues to pulse and evolve. The artwork becomes a threshold, a space where emotion takes precedence over understanding.
Louis-Marie Akiki, known as Anima, is an emerging contemporary painter, born on October 9, 1995, in Paris, with Franco-Swiss nationality and a Lebanese heritage. Having grown up between Versailles, the mountains of the Haut-Jura in France, and other countries, he nurtures an artistic sensitivity open to the world.
Self-taught, he explores painting through a creative instinct, using his hands and various techniques to capture movement, light, and the moment. His work does not seek to represent or explain but to open a passage, a crossing where the moment takes precedence over meaning and matter becomes vibration. In both painting and music, it is less about fixing than letting emerge, less about interpreting than feeling what eludes us. Perhaps it is a form of dialogue between the visible and the invisible, an invitation to lose oneself to better reconnect, to follow a movement that, in itself, seems to carry something that escapes us as much as it moves through us.
​Affirming his deep connection with Versailles, he continues an artistic dialogue beyond borders.
He also founded Le Projet SOL, an association dedicated to creating music for animals, extending this exploration of the sensitive and the living.
