Installation view of «Closer», Gevaert Éditions, Brussels, April 2022.
Transition, 2021. Linocut print, offset ink on Magnani paper, 70x50cm
Untitled, 2018. Ballpoint pen on paper, 29,7x21cm
Untitled, 2018. Ballpoint pen on paper, 21x29,7cm
Transmission, 2022. Linocut print, offset ink on Magnani paper, 70x50cm
Dispersion, 2022. Linocut print, offset ink on Magnani paper, 50x70cm
Untitled, 2018. Ballpoint pen on paper, 2 sheets, 42x29,7cm
Diversion, 2022. Linocut print, offset ink on Magnani paper, 50x70cm
Régression, 2021. Linocut print, offset ink on Magnani paper, 70x50cm
Untitled, 2018. Ballpoint pen on paper, 2 sheets, 42x29,7cm
Untitled, 2018. Ballpoint pen on paper, 21x29,7cm
Photos: Isabelle Arthuis
Closer April 28 to May 29, 2022, Gevaert Editions, Brussels
Closer featured a series of small framed ballpen drawings and linocut printed works on raisin paper.
The drawings were created in summer 2018 in a span of two weeks in my former apartment. They represented views of my home as seen from my bed, my couch or my kitchen table, populated by fantoms whose presence was made discernable by the hint of their scant actions such as drinking and smoking, reading, checking their phones or playing cards. I drew them as benevolent alter-egos that embodied what I aspired to back then: an ability to enjoy some kind of cheerful, nonchalant retirement.
The linocuts re-enacted years later these intimate drawings in a cathartic manner. Change of scale and medium implied new compositions, a different approach to expressivity with the use of carved lines and black color and a singular experience of self- estrangement percieved while carving patiently fresh images out of traces of a passed personal era.