Marc Dannaud

## WHAT SEEKS TO TAKE SHAPE

The diversity of my work — abstraction and figuration, colour, techniques — stems directly from both my creative process and what I seek to achieve through it. I do not aim to develop a single signature style: my visual language changes according to what is seeking to take shape. This diversity reflects different ways of engaging with reality, with a place, with others, or with what feels alive to me at the moment of creation.

In the studio, I work through improvisation, starting from a sensation, a movement, a form, or an experience that remains active within me. When a thread begins to emerge, I follow it for as long as it remains fertile, sometimes allowing an entire series to grow from it.

What has settled from lived experience feeds my work without being reproduced literally. At first glance, something often seems familiar, before a shift, an ambiguity or an improbability unsettles that recognition. The image remains open, allowing viewers to bring their own experience to what they see.

After twenty years working as an interior architect, I also enjoy creating commissioned works. I approach each project as an opportunity to begin with an existing context — a place, a history, its uses and the pe...

After studying at the École Boulle in Paris, I worked as an interior designer specialising in workplaces from 1996 to 2017. Painting has been indispensable to me since 2006 and has been my main activity since 2017.

I work mainly on comissions and in my studio