The Tram
- Medium
- Acrylic, Posca, Caparol on canvas
- Series
- 22 works
As a Montpellier resident, I saw the beginnings of the Tram in 2000, and I was immediately won over by its aesthetic approach and its bold use of colour.
Moreover, I have always liked public transport, spaces of emptiness and random crossings. These “pseudo-encounters” have always intrigued me. Sometimes eyes meet: what remains of these silent exchanges? What can we guess from what others show of themselves?
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As a Montpellier resident, I saw the beginnings of the Tram in 2000, and I was immediately won over by its aesthetic approach and its bold use of colour.
Moreover, I have always liked public transport, spaces of emptiness and random crossings. These “pseudo-encounters” have always intrigued me. Sometimes eyes meet: what remains of these silent exchanges? What can we guess from what others show of themselves?
Through this work, I question presence, absence, memory, forgetting, visual codes, incommunicability and reality.
These paintings are made from a large collection of photos that I took “instinctively” in the trams. The formal aspect of painting allowed me to restore, translate and reinterpret these moments. The use of blurs, sometimes imprecise spots, “gaps”, or transparencies helped me to convey these sensations of instantaneity, speed and overlapping planes.
- Le Tram n°6 intérieur81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°7 intérieur81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°8 station81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°3 Intérieur81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°4 Croisement81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°5 à travers la vitre81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°10 station81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°9 Voyage81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°11 Intérieur100 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°2 Extérieur81 × 100 cm
- Le Tram n°16 station54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°17 intérieur54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°20 intérieur54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°22 intérieur54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°23 du quai54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°14 à travers la vitre54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°15 Passage54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°18 à travers la vitre54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°19 croisement54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°21 Intérieur54 × 81 cm
- Le Tram n°13 Du Quai54 × 81 cm
