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 Drawing as aims 

 Monster

Indian ink and back smoke on paper _80/120cm

Scribble, stain, and smudge are here ennobled as creative gestures. These hybrid figures emerge at the boundary between figurative and abstract, neither human, nor animal, nor vegetal. Executed in Indian ink and smoke, they seem born from breath, from dark exhalation. Each "monster" escapes identification: unstable, moving, it resists the gaze. Deep black and accidental textures evoke totemic archaism. These works propose an impossible taxonomy, that of imaginary creatures emerging in an indecisive zone between fear, fascination, and strangeness. Drawing becomes a field of listening between intuition, body, and the invisible.

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Monster drawing in reference to divinatory practices, Indian ink, lampblack, animal viscera prints...
Monster drawing in reference to divinatory practices, Indian ink, lampblack, animal viscera prints...
Monster drawing in reference to divinatory practices, Indian ink, lampblack, animal viscera prints...

The drawing takes root in hidden depths, the line proliferates, the line creates a tree from the void, that of the white page on which a stain, a scribble, a burn or a crumple intervenes. It is a primary state, a cosmogony subject to mental projections. These abstract forms are born from the automatism of a graphic gesture close to a writing with open proposals. The scribble and its proliferation are given as a free expression of the psyche. The material stretches towards the form, vacillates between abstraction and suggestive figuration, in a practice of emergence.

Monster drawing in reference to divinatory practices, Indian ink, lampblack, animal viscera prints...

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