Sortie du bois

Created in 2024, this work marks the culmination of research conducted around coffee. After a visit to the Musée d’Orsay dedicated to Van Gogh’s final moments in Auvers-sur-Oise, doubt crept in about the possibility of still creating beauty and leaving a trace. The artist then returned to his preferred material, but reversed the process: coffee was applied to dry acrylic paint, then reworked with water and a brush. The gesso reliefs, left visible, are highlighted with bright white. The dense, almost mineral surface becomes a territory where forms reveal themselves without being imposed. Through the play of pareidolia, a young horned deer seems to emerge from the woods and undergrowth. Its presence remains uncertain, on the border between the visible and the imaginary. The phantoms of the material remain free: they do not need to be named to inhabit the canvas.