connexion (2012) Painting by Juliette Rousseau

My paintings are loaded with a lot of affect, coming from my personal trajectory, that I try to express trough the depiction of the human body, often in an abstract context, that doesn't give the keys to know who, nor when nor why. I let the viewer imagine what happened before or after, if that is necessary at all. Motions are caught in contemporary dance choreography. I want to speak about me, but anyone can see himself in my subjects. I intend to pull the little individual vicissitudes out of their temporality to give the emotion its absolute and tragic place. A painting wont change the world, but it can make my sadness look beautiful, as an act of resilience. I paint with and about my tears, about music, about love. I want to catch what makes a tear to dry and why do our emotions end. When dancing becomes a struggle against death, and fighting becomes an embrace. I want to extract the drama of being human, and paint with that juice.

I work with oil colors mostly, although I don't think it suits my emergency way of creating, but this is the only one I know. Without any formal art education, although I play with lines and colors since my childhood, art is for me, full of questions, paradoxes, and doubts. Perhaps oil suits me after all, because I can do and redo endlessly, change my mind a hundred times, I hope this journey will never stop.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1975
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists