"88 DOORS & STANLEY THE OPERA "

In the prologue to the exhibition devoted to Truc Anh Sator by Vincent Gallery in June, Jules & Jim Hotel prolong presence the artist in Paris all summer. With the unique hook of "88 DOORS & STANLEY THE OPERA ". Doors 88 is a split set 88 time still life drawn in large size: 150 cm x 150 cm. The size is important. It allows two readings, usual, are opposites. On the one hand, the Reading hyper realistic, even surgical, of a familiar object and on the other hand, its object can be transformed into fiction. Talismans, planets, constellations, remains of an extinct civilization holes black, orbital trajectories of objects worship, Venusian DNA, dragon scales, Robotic wards, spirits cells ghosts, apparitions revealing. It's about parasitize the knowledge of a thing generally using the visual codes used to know her. This is also to that game played by Renée Magritte in his famous paintings of objects by changing Simply the title. "Acacia" to titrate the image of an egg. Although taken by the inability to qualify what they see, the eyes continue strange to be attracted to the image.For two reasons. First, they naturally respond to the invitation aptyque (want to touch what we see) image due to its high resolution. The second, the repetition of a pattern request a permanant job of the eye to rest in a stable form. There incessant visual rhyme, she works like an incantation that, contrary a knowledge set, leads to destruction of landmarks. The Stanley Opera is a set started from photographic self-portraits in 2007 and carried out in various places in France, US or Norway. But the exact reference of important places generally little. Since these are used for their narrative potential, they become "sets"; foreigners of all geographical or historical coherence. Crossing these boundaries by the character an effect of "mirage obsessive ". A visual sensation widely developed in the series

88  Doors. Stanley wears a pink onesie. It formalizes the one hand, the costume of a super low-end hero and the other, a refusal of maturity called "Syndrome Peter Pan. " The irruption of the character in various decorations empty of any population produces a form of incongruity. He looks, all in all, pretty stupid. Stanley does nothing, He exists. His works repeatedly occurs as a running gag, supported by the repetitive citing among other titles, countless albums "Tintin" or "Martine". I wanted to create a popular character whose adventures are paltry (Stanley made racketeering,

 tanley bends the elbow), existential (The Purgatory, Stanley feels the Earth), or metaphorical (The Stanley esophagus, Stanley is in a meeting). I always loved disguise myself. Also, it is through a masked alter ego that I query Today the world with my report, I hope, sadness and derision.