Identity of the Salon:
In the mid-1970s, figuration and the figures it engendered were compelled to stand against official discourses which, no longer perceiving any need to support figurative art, chose instead to promote a more abstract, more softened form of expression. This figuration claimed its critical stance, insofar as it refused these well-intentioned injunctions. Thus Figuration Critique was born, marked by the inauguration of its first annual salon in November. Today, it stands as the most esteemed of Parisian salons, in light of the rigor and exacting nature of its selection.
My Work:
I shape the material as one shapes tried flesh.
It hollows, it tightens, it carries its scars.
A body emerges—fragmentary, crossed by muted tensions.
The surface becomes skin: a living presence, at once fragile and enduring.
