Je cherche à rendre le mouvement qui
projette vers l'autre, accélère, transporte puis menace.
Chaque toile est un instantané sur une
question :
Mise en scène des frottement des corps
empreints de tempêtes intérieures, paysages dépeuplés, chairs à
la douleur exhibée, le calme d'une présence intime, un combat en
duel avec l'autre ou soi-même.
S'attirer, se repousser dans un
équilibre fragile, une quête d'amour qui pousse les corps à la
tension. Des histoires individuelles aux liens dénoués ou
possessifs. Formes qui s'épousent et se séparent.
Les couleurs et les traits vifs livrent
la complexité de la vie. Quand les forces extérieures se voient à
l'intérieur le désir et l'absence se matérialisent.
Parcours : j'ai appris la peinture
en autodidacte surtout, avec une formation à l’école d'art St
Martins de Londres en 2007. Voyageuse dans âme et dans le monde,
j'ai emmagasiné les couleurs et les impressions en Afrique du Sud,
en Australie, en Asie et en Europe du nord. Ma démarche personnelle
émotionnelle me pousse à transmettre mes états âme dans mes
peintures.
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When I arrived to the Cape of Good Hope, four years ago, I wasn't supposed to stay. But the place caught me. Here I found the space in me to paint, and people who support me in that endeavor. It was like a chemical reaction, everything that was buried in me collide with the striking light and freedom that I found in this country.
My
paintings are loaded with a lot of affect, coming from my personal
trajectory, that I try to express trough the depiction of the human
body, often in an abstract context, that doesn't give the keys to know
who, nor when nor why. I let the viewer imagine what happened before or
after, if that is necessary at all. Motions are caught in contemporary
dance choreography. I want to
speak about me, but anyone can see himself in my subjects. I intend to
pull the little individual vicissitudes out of their temporality to give
the emotion its absolute and tragic place. A painting wont change the
world, but it can make my sadness look beautiful, as an act of
resilience. I paint with and
about my tears, about music, about love. I want to catch what makes a
tear to dry and why do our emotions end. When dancing becomes a struggle
against death, and fighting becomes an embrace. I want to extract the
drama of being human, and paint with that juice.
I
work with oil colors mostly, although I don't think it suits my
emergency way of creating, but this is the only one I know. Without any
formal art education, although I play with lines and colors since my
childhood, art is for me, full of questions, paradoxes, and doubts.
Perhaps oil suits me after all, because I can do and redo endlessly,
change my mind a hundred times, I hope this journey will never stop.
Juliette Rousseau