POSTCARDS FROM…

« My work usually gravitates around painting and drawing. One can read my approach from the perspective of subjective abstraction, exposing the poetry in painting to psychological and sociocultural notions. The connection between the human being and the space is also a key topic in my work.

The artwork starts with three proses, both abstract and melancholic. They relate the quest for gentleness in a quarantine tinged with doubts and uncertainties about the future. Search for poetry in the domestic sphere, since we can’t go outside, we will hence go for a walk incognito in the blue night.

…a psychological ruin that recaptures us at dawn, each day. Nostalgia of the past and a more emancipated world. The canvas talk about the night, always blue as it makes us dream. Direct reference to Y. Klein’s artwork that talked about the void so well. In this blue, here predominant, the ambivalence between oneirism and anxiety is amplified. Blue like an abyss, also.

Abstract balconies, in weightlessness, showing the distance between the world and us. An observant side, almost voyeur, interpret facing the universe that looks huge to us since it is about existential planetary problems that we have a hard time facing.

A semi-abstraction that narrates a state of mind between ruin and rationalism. The inclusion of more figurative details like the naïve starry skies and the flying saucers yet illustrates this abstract universe. Reference to comics and video game drawing that emphasizes the search for hobbies as a way out…

Lastly the postcards, endowed with prose messages, sometimes about memories, sometimes about feelings, talk about a will to get in touch with someone else, and reveal the psychological fragility that obsess us currently. Outside the windows, below these elevated skies and balconies, the cards are available to all bystanders. As coming from nowhere or somewhere else : Postcards from… »