Fukushima 7, metallic pencils, Canson paper, 4,15m x 0,75m, 2020
The drawings are guided by mental images as much as reference images taken from the media. The faceless bodies and identities of the men and women who saved us haunted the canvas long after the events. A silent, invisible and anonymous mass, they represented the only possible images of redemption, highlighting the paradox that care, rendered anonymous, is almost inhuman. These images then spread from crisis to crisis: that of the Corona virus in particular, then those of the wars, in the rubble of Kiev, Kibbutz Re’im or the ruins of Gaza. Without transition, the drawings have been continuously fed with these images, the ghosts have invaded our daily lives, and the series, which began in 2013, has continued for more than ten years, like a filter of time that has irradiated our lives.
In “L’âge atomique” , catalogue, Paris-Musée, MAM, Paris, Julia Garimoth and Maria Stravinaki, 2024