Bertille De Baudinière

My artwork can appear inconsistent, unstable, and liable to change direction without warning. I am not especially concerned with questions of abstraction, representation or stylistic matters in general. What most attracts me and finds its way into my work are oppositions, differences, conflict, and mobility -- the conditions that signify life as it is lived now, in our times.

My means for addressing these issues are the simplest ones: light and dark, water and oil, colour and black. In making my work, I seek to put a "pause" on life, to re-examine it and rework it with the material tools available to me. That this is an impossible task is self-evident, but the effort must be made. In this way, through my work, I am seeking to prepare myself for the inevitability of my eventual -- our eventual -- "non being". Pause, resume, end, reset.

Some people say that my work is contemplative. I would rather think that I am observing reality, and keeping myself aware of our space-time.

Catching the light from a window or freezing some junk mail on my canvas allows me to materialize that time in my own space.

Thanks to the Internet, we have access to vast amounts of space in real and virtual time. Looking at the conflicting forces and ideas that lie at the foundation of our society, I feel comfortable in this infinitude, and I find some peace in playing with the images it provides us.