A world in Black and White
Darkness is everywhere
The darkness in me
Darkness in my soul
Light a match,
I want to see the end of the corridor.
I chose to work with ink deliberately. Knowing many techniques, none of them did not suite me. So I developed a technique that I can use everywhere, because it is easily accessible, all you need is paper and ink. I won’t say the meaning of each work, it’s too long and complicated. But I suggest you find your own explanations, it’s more interesting.
I’m going to talk about some paintings, for example, « The Landscapes », « The Lake », one of the first drawings I made when I was a student. I tried to capture nature, the play of light and shadow, just in black and white. It’s the amazing result, when with simple lines and tonal gradations you get a special effect. When, for example, water, which is not drawn at all, is present in this landscape and radiates from the inside.
The Ball
18.51 x 30.32 inch – 2002
I often talk about social relations. This painting was inspired by the work of the writer Edgar Allan Poe at a masked ball where everyone is partying and wearing masks while being at the time of the plague. But only death has come without a mask, it doesn’t need one. Drawing and symbols are intertwined in my work.
Women with Wings: Masked Thoughts, Humility Reserves, Judgement et Predestination
These associations are women and their place in society. And of course, about myself, because I am also a woman. When I came to Paris, I felt free and happy, I took wings. But then it turned out that there are problems and that life is not rosy. My dreams and desires to be free as a bird stayed in my hair.
In fact the past and the daily worries cling to me and pull me down to the ground, they are my roots. Different little creatures appear here and there, they are sins and wishes that smile on us. The woman is sad, her wings are down, but she has kept her plumage, maybe one day she will be able to fly away and be free.
The painting « Destiny » and its sequel « Predestined »painted years later are a theme: the unenviable destiny of a woman: she gives life, but what comes out of it afterwards?
It is astonishing to see how these little babies grow up and sometimes become cruel and evil people, murderers or, rapists. You would think that some of them would have drunk poison instead of mother’s milk. And the society portrayed here as a monstrosity, between its legs, is waiting for new victims.
A World in Black and White
26.78 x 44.1 inch – 2016
A World in Black and White it is eternal debate between good and evil.
In my opinion there is no absolute white, full of goodness, without black without evil, they are always together always next to each other. And the man depicted in the painting is on the borderline between white and black: he is thinking, he is confused, he doesn’t know what to choose. We can’t see his feet and we don’t know which side he is on, we hope he has chosen the white side.