Je Jonas ... et autres voyages 2017-2018 Between myths and experience of lived journeys, this series once again invests the thick, non-exhaustive and fragmentary duration of the subjective time of painting. It is the recurrences of singular or collective memories, the resurgences of reality meeting the distant memory of great stories as conveyed by myths, which shape the particularity of the compositions of this new series. Under the sign of a free evocation above all, the connections and the gap between the memories of regular stays in China and the great Greek or biblical myths, are imbued with the beauty of the places and people encountered, of the situations experienced, of the shock of current events of our time, tested and traveled through the experience of painting ... Thierry Pertuisot, July 26, 2018