«Saudade» is a Portuguese word missing in other languages. It is said that it was invented by the slaves deported from Africa, including Angola. This word represents the longing of something that we have never known, lack or blurring memory of what we have ever had. It is different from envy. It may be a forgotten past, a golden age lost by historicism but that we cherish as a D.N.A., as a fuzzy dream.
At the end of 2016, white supremacy and national feelings come again. This phenomenon makes us wonder if the spirit of colonization and denial of other cultures would never actually disappeared. The artist expresses a desire to re-examine the «primitive» cultures or proto-Palaeolithic as did modern painters. The series begins with a photo footage that is transcribed into painting by the confrontation of plastics. Faces are African masks painted in flat tint to highlight the impact and beauty that we inherited from the study of non-Christian art, including African.
The minimalist style, plain which runs most of the expression is in opposition to the volume of bodies that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration. The characters are mostly women, meant to matriarchy. The bodies are naked to meet the inspiring natural beautyness.
The backgrounds often suggest fuzzy and romantic spaces. Some details mix ages to rewrite a free history. An history that does not denigrate the nature, the importance and the intellignece of its past: A history without sexual channeling, without falsehood inherent in the construction of the cities, without slave: A history which takes place in a cyclical, eternal time. In short, a lost paradise and their lost beautyfull monsters.