No Man's Land By Thierry Chavenon Exhibition from Tuesday November 14 to Saturday December 9, 2017 Opening on Tuesday November 14, 2017 from 6.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. in the presence of the artist. Closing on Saturday December 9, 2017 from 6.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. in the presence of the artist. Uncertain extent, vacant lot, zone of the mobsters between two suburbs, calm field before the assault, fallow land, moment when the mist disputes twilight at night, Thierry Chavenon constructs his No Man's Land between abstract and figurative. A vast and intimate space where two sides of the same world meet, sometimes oppose each other, but always complement each other without ever being confused. If the figurative and the abstract fraternize through this space, it is because the figurative speaks here of the vision of a reality. It is the projection of a film noir, a photographic object emanating from silver layers, detail of an already transposed whole that we can guess but which remains hidden in its material. This figurative, escaped from reality, stretches in its original material to become concrete, claims its existence through its dramatic tension. There is no drama, but maybe a crime or a murderer who belongs to the night, to the fog, to the sea. But is it really the night, the fog or the sea? Already the figurative returns to the painting which gave it birth to dissolve a little further. In the abstraction of another painting. In Thierry Chavenon's painting, abstraction is the flesh of the figurative. Between figurative and abstract, Thierry Chavenon recreates the tension proper to No Man's Land, a source of hopes and fears that comes from a calm place with deceptive serenity. - Philippe Rouquier - writer-director