"Vortex" Painting

In the lineage of French Narrative Figuration, my oil paintings - social critiques tinged with dark humour - are nourished by pop culture and the graphic codes of the 1970s and 1980s.

“Nothing will ever be the same again.”

Through bittersweet scenes set in vivid, tangy colours, blending surrealism and symbolism, I explore existential anxieties and capture the tipping point of intimate dramas and collective catastrophes.

Faced with the tragedies that weigh upon them, my heroines and heroes respond less with revolt than with a quiet resistance: a certain nonchalance, an insolent charm, and a defiant elegance inherited from the “No Future” ethos of the second half of the 20th century.

My current series, "Fractals under surreal constraints", depicts an Earth going off the rails, populated by troubled characters. I examine the human condition and portray the existential hell of individuals on the brink of breakdown, trapped in repetitive routines and subjected to absurd constraints.

The geometry of the series is built around recurring lines (wall patterns, tiles, furniture, railings, hedges...), creating a sense of confinement around the characters, but also tracing overlooked paths and possibilities they fail to see. Through its rigour, it offers an ironic counterweight to the psychological chaos engulfing them.

Dominated by blue - a deceptively restrained blue infiltrated by red and charged with a latent violence ready to erupt - the series turns the home and domestic spaces, and, by extension, intimate and family relationships, into a territory of tension where reality gradually begins to falter, in step with human unravelling.

By confronting my characters with the collapse of the systemic or psychological structures that kept them in a certain form of alienation, I probe the human psyche and its search for meaning, exploring cognitive distortions and liminal states at the boundary between fantasy and reality.