Samuel Boudaud

I would define my artistic practice as being an act of graphic tightrope walking, a creative act, where, although contradictory, I struggle to remain in a letting go in order to let the work blossom, reveal itself. I strive to remain in balance on this tenuous thread of “letting go/controlled", to welcoming the materials and entities that invite themselves, while maintaining a general coherence which will give interest to the work.

It is this ability to nourish the symbiosis between technique and purpose that is the main interest of my work and which brings me so much pleasure. I position myself as a mediator who directs the dialogue that arises between content and form. I navigate between abstraction and figuration and lose myself in the materials generated by the brush or the pencil in order to find the creativity which will reveal the underlying figurative and thus make the subject accessible to the viewer. I always marvel at observing the life that escapes my control, that breathes onto the canvas.

In this swarm of fragments of life, a story is constructed that everyone can appropriate according to their sensitivity and their ability to let themselves be drawn into this graphic maze. There is not a general discourse strictly speaking that I carry over time in my works, I rather let myself go to represent my perception of the world around me through the prism of my sensitivity. But the themes of nature, spirituality, esotericism and what makes us human in the general sense mainly nourish my work.