BAD + Bordeaux 2023

Motif is part of a group of paintings produced from photographs of sweat-shirts. Very typical of her work, the artist transforms the picture by playing on the scale ratio to provide a different angle. By the inclination of the focal length towards a close perspective and by enlarging the picture, Mireille Blanc subtly fades the subject out of the image, and constructs a filter between the artwork and the one who is looking at it. By blurring the inscription and the image's context, often old-fashion and kitsch, she focuses on the vagueness of the elements treated and plays on the enigmatic nature of subjects she encounters.

Pull, dans les nuages is part of a group of paintings produced from photographs of sweat-shirts. Very typical of her work, the artist transforms the picture by playing on the scale ratio to provide a different angle. By the inclination of the focal length towards a close perspective and by enlarging the picture, Mireille Blanc subtly fades the subject out of the image, and constructs a filter between the artwork and the one who is looking at it. By blurring the inscription and the image's context, often old-fashion and kitsch, she focuses on the vagueness of the elements treated and plays on the enigmatic nature of subjects she encounters.

Petit sweat bleu is part of a group of paintings produced from photographs of sweat-shirts. Very typical of her work, the artist transforms the picture by playing on the scale ratio to provide a different angle. By the inclination of the focal length towards a close perspective and by enlarging the picture, Mireille Blanc subtly fades the subject out of the image, and constructs a filter between the artwork and the one who is looking at it. By blurring the inscription and the image's context, often old-fashion and kitsch, she focuses on the vagueness of the elements treated and plays on the enigmatic nature of subjects she encounters.

The source image of Sucre glace comes from a detail of a photograph of a T-shirt stained with icing sugar. The white of the sugar creates a sort of constellation on the surface of the navy blue fabric. The framing is so tight that you can make out the knits of the garment. The subject is unrecognisable and evokes at first glance the pattern of a wave. Thus the painting becomes almost abstract and its object remains deliberately enigmatic.

The Solar dynamics series is a representation of the sun, through an hydrogen filter (H-Alpha) applied on a telescope by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. It allows to observe with great precision the details of the chromosphere, a thin but very active layer of the solar atmosphere.
The 24 drawings composing this series correspond to the decomposition of the sun's rotational movement over 24 hours. The dot becomes a tool of mise en abyme where the big white circle of the sun is itself a composition of an infinity of points.

The Solar dynamics series is a representation of the sun, through an hydrogen filter (H-Alpha) applied on a telescope by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. It allows to observe with great precision the details of the chromosphere, a thin but very active layer of the solar atmosphere.
The 24 drawings composing this series correspond to the decomposition of the sun's rotational movement over 24 hours. The dot becomes a tool of mise en abyme where the big white circle of the sun is itself a composition of an infinity of points.

The Solar dynamics series is a representation of the sun, through an hydrogen filter (H-Alpha) applied on a telescope by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. It allows to observe with great precision the details of the chromosphere, a thin but very active layer of the solar atmosphere.
The 24 drawings composing this series correspond to the decomposition of the sun's rotational movement over 24 hours. The dot becomes a tool of mise en abyme where the big white circle of the sun is itself a composition of an infinity of points.

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien…), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

In Amorce dans l'air léger, Massinissa Selmani assembles elements to produce strange, even absurd situations, imbued with a certain gravity; they suggest signs of a latent tragedy or the beginnings of an elusive violence to come. The resulting storytelling, deliberately constructed from postures or fragments of architecture that seem familiar, escapes the possibility of situating or dating them. The elements thus isolated from their context tend to make the situations eternal.

Inspired by Jean Sénac's poems, Massinissa Selmani tries to capture the particular rhythm of the author's writing. He draws fragments with watercolour that echo the language. The sentences are sometimes left as they are, sometimes invented, modified or expanded, while preserving and emphasizing the impertinence and absurdity of the revolutionary poet's words. Far from illustration, Massinissa Selmani focuses mainly on the formal and graphic rhythm to develop a poetry of drawing that is central in his work.