"Pourquoi je peins" / "Why I Paint".
Je peins pour qu’on se souvienne. Pour exister encore, même après ma mort. Je peins parce que le temps emporte et détruit tout. Parce que nous ne sommes pas faits pour durer. Parce qu’un jour, tout s’arrêtera. Alors, comme un acte de révolte, de résistance, et de survie, je crée. Librement, instinctivement, viscéralement. Parfois même, trop imprudemment. Contre l’oubli, contre l’effacement, contre ma propre mort. Et je vais peindre encore, probablement de plus en plus, jusqu’à la fin. Le seul espace qu’il me reste à présent pour lutter. Et pour hurler. C’est dans cette intensité vitale, souvent poussée à l’extrême, que naissent mes toiles. Par la substance même de la peinture, je grave dans la matière mon passage éphémère sur cette terre. Chaque toile est un fragment de vie. J’y ai mis tout ce que je suis. Mes doutes, mes peurs, mes vertiges. Ces moments vrais, où quelque chose déborde. Ces failles, où l’intime devient visible. Un univers abstrait, vif et lumineux, poétique, lyrique, émotionnel et sensoriel. Depuis que j’ai découvert cette forme d’art, il y a environ trois ans, j’ai peint plus d’une cinquantaine de toiles. Évoluant jusqu’ici dans un cercle intime, aucune d’entre elles n’a encore été dévoilée publiquement. Mes tableaux peuvent sembler étrangers les uns aux autres, comme si plusieurs vies, ou plusieurs peintres les avaient créés. C’est un choix artistique. Comme celui de ne pas les intituler. Laissant à chaque spectateur sa propre perception et interprétation des œuvres. Mais en chacun d’eux il y a un cri. Une urgence. Une nécessité. Le refus de disparaître complètement. Je veux laisser une trace, une empreinte, un signe, une présence. Ces œuvres, qui résisteront au temps, en seront le témoignage. Elles prouveront que j’ai été là, et que j’ai vécu. Elles résonneront à jamais. Ainsi, après ma mort, et d’une autre façon, ma vie se prolongera, et mon histoire continuera. Un défi pour l’éternité. Un pacte d’immortalité.
I paint so that we may remember. To exist still, even after my death. I paint because time sweeps everything away and destroys it. Because we are not made to last. Because one day, everything will fade away. So, as an act of revolt, resistance, and survival, I create. Freely, instinctively, viscerally. At times, even too recklessly. Against forgetting, against erasure, against my own death. And I will keep painting, probably more and more, until the end. The only space I have left now to fight. And to scream. It is within this vital and sometimes extreme intensity that my paintings are born. Through the very substance of paint, I engrave my fleeting passage on this earth. Each canvas is a fragment of life. I have poured into it all that I am. My doubts, my fears, my dizzying depths. Those true moments, when something spills over. Those cracks where the intimate becomes visible. An abstract universe, vivid and luminous, poetic, lyrical, emotional and sensorial. Since discovering this art form about three years ago, I have painted more than fifty canvases. Until now, they have remained within a close circle, and none has yet been revealed to the public. My paintings may seem foreign to one another, as if several lives, or several painters had created them. This is an artistic choice. Like the decision not to title them. Leaving each viewer with their own perception and interpretation of the artworks. But in each of them there is a cry. An urgency. A necessity. The refusal to vanish completely. I want to leave a trace, a mark, a sign, a presence. These artworks, which will endure through time, will be the testimony. They will prove that I was here, and that I lived. They will resonate forever. And so, after my death, in another way, my life will continue, and my story will go on. A challenge to eternity. A pact of immortality.
I paint so that we may remember. To exist still, even after my death. I paint because time sweeps everything away and destroys it. Because we are not made to last. Because one day, everything will fade away. So, as an act of revolt, resistance, and survival, I create. Freely, instinctively, viscerally. At times, even too recklessly. Against forgetting, against erasure, against my own death. And I will keep painting, probably more and more, until the end. The only space I have left now to fight. And to scream. It is within this vital and sometimes extreme intensity that my paintings are born. Through the very substance of paint, I engrave my fleeting passage on this earth. Each canvas is a fragment of life. I have poured into it all that I am. My doubts, my fears, my dizzying depths. Those true moments, when something spills over. Those cracks where the intimate becomes visible. An abstract universe, vivid and luminous, poetic, lyrical, emotional and sensorial. Since discovering this art form about three years ago, I have painted more than fifty canvases. Until now, they have remained within a close circle, and none has yet been revealed to the public. My paintings may seem foreign to one another, as if several lives, or several painters had created them. This is an artistic choice. Like the decision not to title them. Leaving each viewer with their own perception and interpretation of the artworks. But in each of them there is a cry. An urgency. A necessity. The refusal to vanish completely. I want to leave a trace, a mark, a sign, a presence. These artworks, which will endure through time, will be the testimony. They will prove that I was here, and that I lived. They will resonate forever. And so, after my death, in another way, my life will continue, and my story will go on. A challenge to eternity. A pact of immortality.
