"Critical point"
With the exceptional collaboration of Patrick Chauvel, war reporter.
For over two years, I started a process of research on the perceptions and feelings that creates freedom. Of my paintings on the Arab Spring to my reinterpretation of images from photographs taken by Edward Boubat or Robert Doisneau, I continue my exploration with the exhibition "critical point."
For this exhibition, both approaches will mingle.
The first is to show unequivocally the theme, such as the painting titled "Freedom Day", which is the first day of the war in Egypt (where all the characters are from photographs taken by Rémi Ochlik, Egypt) or "Palestinian dream" inspired by one of the reports of Patrick Chauvel in Jenin in Palestine. (The video will be displayed for the duration of the exhibition)
The second approach, however, wants more surprising because the interest of the paintings did not really lie in what they show, but rather by what motivated me to paint. This is the case of the canvas "Levi's day" representing two women on a bench and discovering their new Jean, a canvas echoing a Figaro article published in 2009 (the arrest and conviction of three women to 20 lashes whips for wearing trousers in Khartoum), but also the legal reality of Sharia law in a society that wants to be right.
As in 2012, the exhibition "Liberté !! Libertà! Libertad! " I was inspired by the work of other photographers, reporters War, which marked my mind and died between 2012 and 2013 as Rémi Ochlik and Olivier Voisin.