Pool with Toulouse Painting

I started a series of pools in 2021 "Pool with...", directly inspired by David Hockney's pools. David Hockney's pools from the 60's and 70's embody hedonism, joie de vivre, homosexuality and perhaps hope. Today, their meaning seems to me different from the meaning of David Hockney's swimming pools because of our times, because of the IPCC reports. Even if they still embody a certain hedonism, they convey an image of selfishness, they symbolise in a way the access to water, and especially the lack of access to water. My pools are symbols of our human behaviour, they are ideas of pools, imaginary, placed in unlikely places. Of course, these pools are puddles, basins, ponds, pools ... I also participate in the human drifts that I expose through my work, I am actor and guilty. We are creating a world where many will have unwanted pools and others will have dried up wells. As in the past, family dinners drag on, only the adults have the right to speak, and as in the past, they leave the table at 6pm and, full as they are, they don't want to make decisions that could jeopardise the next family meal. My work is dictated by our human behaviours, I use images to describe our failings, our drifts often linked to intellectual laziness. These pools are part of my work on the landscape, they are a research on the composition based on horizontal lines, in search of a certain fullness, of hope. This work "Swimming pool with Toulouse" is the first of the series it is inspired by the swimming pool of my friends in Toulouse.