Portraits Allégoriques
For the artist, to realize a portrait is to study, to decipher, to measure the face of the other. The exercise of meticulous drawing allows me this journey in the physiognomy of the model. When it is a self-portrait, the exercise is identical since you never really know your own face.
The practice of the portrait tells of the encounter with the other or oneself, this confrontation with the intimate, the emotion, because it shows the truth of the subject. The work becomes a medium giving access to another reality, invisible to everyday eyes. The portrait is then a confrontation of this human reality.