Dom Simon

A French illustrator and visual artist working in Lyon, Dom Simon has developed a unique practice of color ink drawing, in which he questions the power of the image and the limits of its reproduction, thus revealing its intrinsic fragility.

Trained in applied arts, he builds a universe of multiple references nourished by artists such as Saul Leiter or Edward Hopper, but also by the cinema of Wim Wenders, Tarantino or Kubrick. His works oscillate between photography and drawing, classicism and modernity, poetic reverie and raw reality. His preferred medium is paper, which he caresses or does not hesitate to literally sand, in order to make the textures vibrate and bring out the light at the heart of the material.

Wandering adolescents, scenes of suspended intimacy, fragments of a fantasized America: his subjects are often accompanied by words directly inscribed on the drawing. Here, under each drawing, an hour, minutes, and seconds are inscribed, freezing the moment with almost documentary accuracy; each image like a fragment of memory captured for eternity, awakening in each of us intimate and universal reminiscences.