Michaël Relave

Born in 1978 in Lyon. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon, I decided to work on a certain duality. Lightness and paradox are on the program of my original works which manage to surprise. Between the limits of the real and the absurd, I do not seek to respond to a conventional artistic demand or to adapt to the aesthetic canons of such and such a medium, style or social norm, I respond to the expressive impetus that m 'anime. My very singular and captivating works have to do with imaginary mythologies, vaguely inspired perhaps by Indian, Asian, African or Australian deities, alchemical designs, icons and pious images. They are invented in disparate kinship to found a picture book essentially assigned to the celebration of woman, roundness and fertility. The woman as the delicious navel of the world. The woman as the guarantee of a living and viable world. The celebration of the radiant woman among the proliferation of her metaphysical tools, splendid in the heart of her sublime blossoms of breasts or metonymic flowers of the female sex. But also, the work, which sings of fertility, exalts, in a beautiful picture book, peaceful and proliferating, the associations of phallic images and forms (towers, reptiles), the celebration of pairing (pair of superb birds) and that of female fertility, aerial, represented for example by a superb female bird carrying a child at arm's length. Here too, in going beyond borders, humanity and animality come together or reconcile. It is there that undoubtedly originates this representation of the sphinx (hybrid feminine creature between the being and the animal, the aerial and the terrestrial) which presents a tree of life in front of a skull, exacerbation of this idea of the woman who affirms life against the signs of death, the new bloom over decrepitude