My project draws on individual personality and how it comes into conflict with the group or collective, drawing on the traits that differentiate us within a society that tends to make everyone equal and classify us within organisational structures.
I address the paradox between personal identity and the uniformity of the group.
In my search for images, I have sought an analytical position concerning the individual, scouring photo archives from a variety of sources: newspapers, search engines for images on the internet, aerial tracking programs, etc. The notion of painting as flat surface provides help in interpreting the idea of equality, and the frequent use of grey and blue colours brings me nearer the collective imagination. The rectangular border of some collective portraits serves to interpret the idea of organisation, as do the lines painted in car parks and the beach towels laid out in grids on the sand. Some differentiating features do appear among the framed characters, but they are minimal because they dissolve in the context of the work and build into a unity.
My objective in painting is to unify the elements by creating a musical score of repetitions, a randomness of personalities within the ordered system and tiny particularities that are impossible to sustain on returning to the whole work of which they form a part. I group the elements based on rules that are derived from photography or that I re-establish and recreate in social groupings.
I take pleasure in fixing my gaze on the groups forming within society and how such groups, which bring people together by professions, restrict the individual and force him to stand out from his group.
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