Succession
This series of projects tackles figuration and fiction through the critical observation of the transformations imposed by humans and their environment, while highlighting both the aberrations and wonders that exist in landscapes. In reflecting on perception and the evolution of the concept of landscape, I take over representation to direct the spectator’s gaze and mind. These projects attempt to draw parallels between two dispositions in my research, namely to reflect on the conventions and history of painting, while echoing certain contemporary societal issues.
By Succession I mean the weight that the past can exert on the present, as well as the latter’s influence on the future; the term can be used to describe both art history as a form of heritage to be carried on, as it can the accumulation of material and ideological events in overlapping strata within space and time.
This project comprises many series of paintings – Nom commun, Périmètre, Synopsis, Horizon – that attempt to define the notion of landscape by reducing it to its fundamental components: plane, architecture, nature, sky, ground and water. This system unfolds in a fiction where meaning deliberately confronts absurdity in the transcription of landscapes as constructions. Architecture and structure dominate these spaces in a way that reflects human activity.
By Succession I mean the weight that the past can exert on the present, as well as the latter’s influence on the future; the term can be used to describe both art history as a form of heritage to be carried on, as it can the accumulation of material and ideological events in overlapping strata within space and time.
This project comprises many series of paintings – Nom commun, Périmètre, Synopsis, Horizon – that attempt to define the notion of landscape by reducing it to its fundamental components: plane, architecture, nature, sky, ground and water. This system unfolds in a fiction where meaning deliberately confronts absurdity in the transcription of landscapes as constructions. Architecture and structure dominate these spaces in a way that reflects human activity.
