My Contribution is a series begun shortly before Covid-19, after a serious illness: an open series of life snapshots and free painterly experiments. The tension stems from an opposition between the energy of the survivor — that famous joy, that desire to embrace life and everything it offers day by day — and the fatality of the individual who, as a living human being, continues to contribute to the consumption of our resources and the inevitable chaos that remains to watch over our consciences.
Painting is free from the fear of judgment. It turns toward commercial galleries, academies or underground scenes without distinction. It does not freeze itself in a concept, a posture or a discourse, but reveals a conceptual matrix, a personality.
There remain many voices yet to evolve crachotism, to revisit obsessive themes and interpret new references, to remain frank, limpid and enigmatic. This series will open onto a future with broader research: movement and sculpture, Marcel Duchamp, Bad pop, the abstract Ready-made as the very conceptualization of an idea, pure politics or marketing as artwork, a novel published as a plastic work.
These experiences are explored in the book Blackbook.