Pola 4.0 is a self-taught contemporary artist from Lille, France.
Initially destined for a career in medicine, she ultimately chose the path of creation, guided by an early fascination with aesthetics, form, and composition.
She first turned to the world of fashion, a field where precision, material sensitivity, and creative freedom coexist.
This formative experience shaped her relationship to texture, structure, and light, laying the foundations of the visual language she would later develop within contemporary art.

Her pseudonym, Pola 4.0, refers to the Polaroid format that marked her childhood, a symbol of memory and instantaneity , while concealing a more intimate meaning she prefers to keep private.

She then had to face difficulties in her private life – great material for a detective story, actually, and she lost her momentum in this yet promising career.
She therefore had to stop her professional activities for several years. After a hard struggle, and once regaining some sort of balance, she threw herself body and soul into artistic creation. Though her passion has remained intact, her life experience and her sensitivity have directed her towards the realm of art and artistic creation…
From this inner passage emerged an art of transmutation, where fragility becomes strength and light, a language.

Pola 4.0 describes her practice as the visual mapping of an emotional labyrinth.
Her work, at once plural and coherent, is animated by a fertile tension between power and vulnerability, mastery and surrender.
Rather than impose a discourse, she seeks to evoke a silent dialogue, an encounter of emotion and perception.
Her art probes the boundaries between presence and image, questioning what vibrates between appearance and essence.

Since the very beginning, her work has been accompanied by the symbols of visual culture, echoes of an era that shaped the image of the feminine.

She has gradually softened and blurred these signs, marking the quiet metamorphosis of a time: the passage from the represented woman to the woman who embodies herself.

At the heart of her work stands the feminine figure.
Pola 4.0 portrays women as sovereign presences, liberated from the stereotype of the objectified body, re-empowered through consciousness and self-possession.
Her series, from Inner Queens to The Untamed, embody this plural femininity: soft yet forceful, spiritual yet embodied.
In The Untamed, she elevates cultural figures such as Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, Kate Moss or Iggy Pop to the status of quasi-spiritual icons, not to glorify fame, but to reveal their freedom to express, or simply to be.
Their difference, defiance, and resilience become manifestos of freedom, affirming that otherness is not a flaw but a form of grace.

Through the anonymous faces of Inner Queens, the artist pursues this exploration from another angle, transforming fragility into strength, vulnerability into inner power.
What has long been perceived as softness or weakness becomes a source of sovereignty.
These women are no longer objects of gaze, but subjects of their own radiance, silent presences who dare simply to be.

In Pola 4.0’s work, pastiche emerges as a true exercise in interpretation and symbolic transmutation.
Her figures, whether drawn from popular culture or anonymous portraits are never reproduced, but reimagined.
They become archetypes: symbols of resilience, affirmation, and inner freedom.
The source image, whether famous or ordinary, dissolves into a new visual language, part homage, part metamorphosis, part critical reflection.
Through this process, the artist reexamines the endurance of myth, the construction of the gaze, and the reappropriation of the feminine image.

Her practice is profoundly hybrid, combining digital collage, syringe painting and mixed media on aluminum, plexiglass or wood.
Beyond a dialogue between tradition and modernity, she seeks to bridge two temporalities, that of the hand and that of the digital gesture.
Between heritage and invention, between memory and motion, matter itself seems to breathe.

This quest for equilibrium also extends to more unexpected subjects, such as her series dedicated to the most emblematic automobile models.
Far from a mere homage to design, the artist explores the vibration of line, the sensuality of form, transforming these objects of desire into icons of movement and power.