Présence absente

I work with various pictorial techniques, and a majority of my works fall within a realm primarily focused on the countless ways of capturing the universe of portraiture. In my view, whether in the realm of painting, sculpture, or photography, the human face is a complex subject that must convey all its expressiveness through multiple nuances, numerous details, or conversely, through a more minimalist approach, with a deliberate scarcity of color, even monochromatic.

Placed prominently at the center of my canvases, the subjects accept the staging I impose upon them. My portraits thus come to life, quite simply, through a series of procedures, through which their interpreter presents, before observers and onlookers, painted faces that are more or less familiar, or the likenesses of individuals whom I know more intimately, whom I encounter on a daily basis, and from whom I draw inspiration freely, for they are the ones who inspire me.

Hypersensitive, empathetic, emotional, and introspective, I often lack appropriate words in my everyday vocabulary to address the situations I encounter and prefer silence over ill-fitting words. This is why I have chosen portraiture in my art, for it hardly requires verbal expression to be understood, to be heard. The silent expression is more than enough to convey the message it aims to convey, much like my artistic practice – silent yet communicative.