EXHIBITION IN THE CATHEDRAL OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF VAISON-LA-ROMAINE, FRANCE 2023  

THE PAINTINGS

My theatre work is characterized by aesthetical images. But behind the beauty I always expose structural violence or physical brutality between the characters.

In my paintings one can detect the same strategy to combine aesthetics and some kind of violence. The portraits of young men are painted on rough uneven surfaces that create random scars spots and lines on their young faces. The scars are not painted as such. They are the consequences of the roughness of the surfaces where the young faces are being painted. As if he rough surfaces were the young men’s hostile environment. Most of the portraits have a melancholic gaze as if they are victims of some kind of cruelty. A few of them try to face the viewer with an offensive regard trying to stand up to the violence they have been subjected to.

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