Jean-Louis Manuel

J.L Manuel, the imagination takes back its rights

In an offbeat surrealist vein, J.L Manuel lets the imagination take back its rights in order to replay the real in a different way. To do this, he blurs the lines between impulse and distance, between the attempt at a story and the critical apparatuses of derision. The artist does not deny his influences for Dali, Magritte, Ernst, the fantastic precursor Bosch or even other more contemporary artists who work as these referents on the ambivalence of the pictorial language.

In his narrative impetus, J.L Manuel makes bodies, animals, spaces and landscapes telescope. These scattered representations constitute a field of rich signs that makes us doubt what we are looking at. From the emergence of the image to the dissolution of its interpretation, constructed reality is called into question with a certain humor.