All light - 2021

Technique: photography

Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.

"This morning is all light, I don't know in what depths of my head. And there is a presence that is not thought, at the gates of thought."
Paul Valéry (Sète, October 30, 1871 - Paris, July 20, 1945)
Letters to Jeanne Loviton alias Jean Voilier 1937-1945

I set up my studio in Sète in September 2021. I wanted to live near the sea, to feel the sun and the wind.
I set up a room in my new home for painting. I started with abstract shapes. Small, colorful formats, sometimes monochrome.
On the balcony, the sun and the ironwork created changing patterns throughout the day.
They reminded me of the photographs taken by the painter Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015). Photographs like notes, like sketches. I always imagine that he drew inspiration from them to paint.
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I like this transition from figurative to abstract. There is what I see, what I think I see, what I would like to see. The subject fades away but remains a guide, a path. My work is to try to understand.
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I superimposed the shapes created by the sun with my paintings. These superpositions no longer really represent a reality but are not totally detached from it, oscillating in an in-between, where there is light and, I don't know how to say it, a little something else...