My name is Amandine Pontiac.
I come from an artistic background: a literary and arts baccalaureate, one year at the Beaux-Arts in Clermont, and several years of visual creation until the Covid period. The lack of structural support for artists in France, combined with my neurodivergent functioning, made it difficult to sustain this path.
I then chose a more transversal and flexible way of working, allowing me to operate without constant over-adaptation. I lived and travelled across Europe — especially in Spain and Portugal — where I discovered a more fluid way of existing and creating.
In 2024, I returned to France. That same year, an autism diagnosis brought coherence to my trajectory and clarified my perceptive architecture. It allowed me to define a more suitable framework for myself, even though the rigidity of French systems creates a gap between what is theoretically planned and what is actually possible. My independent activity emerged within this context.
I am also the mother of a neurodivergent teenager. We both share a neurohybrid profile, and this lived experience — both individual and relational — has deeply nourished my research.
Today, I work as an independent social researcher and designer. My practice is phenomenological: I study modes of existence, relational architectures, territorial compatibilities, and non-linear rhythms. I create visual content and transmission tools related to neurodiversity, grounded in lived experience, perceptive logic, and conceptual clarity.
