S’étranger

S’étranger

The title of the show can be translated as To Estrange, and assembles paintings made mostly in 2007 and 2008. During this period, I worked on various different series of paintings : the Engulfed series, the Public Spaces, the Judgements series, here assembled under the title Alphabet and the Interiors. Freely inspired by philosophical readings, these series were made sometimes simultaneously, sometimes successively. The title of the show is a direct reference to Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger and can be interpreted as a way to relate these paintings with some of his ideas. In these works, I try to grasp the contingency of our being-in-the-world and the difficult relationship between rationality, reflection and our lived experience.