Les doudounes de l'Opéra, 2021

Jacques Kedochim  

Jacques Kedochim, crossing the worlds.

In a singular balance of appearances and disappearances, he paints the city and its mysteries, its shimmering windows, passers-by questioning their desires, loneliness.

Between real and unreal, the urban universes of Jacques Kedochim provoke the disturbing feeling of deja-vu; this feeling of having already experienced the situation painted. Zebra crossings, bay windows, lampposts… Like the memory of a past life, we believe we recognize everything in this landscape reconstituted by superimposed filters where the moving silhouettes become ghostly, where the known transforms into the unknown.

A poetic and dreamlike vision of the city appears. In this space of freedom, a hypnotic experience invites us to cross an unconventional urban route that is being recomposed. The decor is warm but it is the growing individuality that is underlined.

“The city is the place where human loneliness is most glaring and yet most often ignored. Passers-by, sure of not being observed, parade through the richly lit neighborhoods where objects of covetousness and often derisory desires are displayed. »

The painter works his compositions by superimposing planes around a focal point, often a character. Then he inserts the color, balances the colored masses, adds, removes and replaces the visual elements. The pattern, the flat colors struggle with the figuration and the clear line. The strata accumulate, combine, intertwine to form a unique assemblage. The artist digs the buried meaning towards memorial refuges where reality rubs shoulders with approximation, and deconstruction with representation.

At the corner of a street, he transports us dizzily towards an enveloping immersion, in the heart of his own unconscious.

“By superimposing visual fields I seek to illustrate the fact that we cannot embrace at a single glance the extent of what we want to communicate to us and that it is necessary to change focus to perceive a more hidden part. »

To support this intention, he uses the reflection, the transparency, the mirror effect and the fragmentation of the image.

The artist questions the uncertainty of being, the loss and rediscovery of oneself.

His exterior decorations are the images of a world that he carries within him.

It's all about framing, the search for balance between shapes and colors, between gestures and signs, between light and darkness.

“Light needs shadow to exist (…) this is why, This moment of the day when the light decreases to let the shadow settle seems to me the most conducive to conveying my intentions. »

Under this very particular luminosity - between dog and wolf - the field of the imaginary widens with fluidity towards the revelation.

The works of Jacques Kedochim are contemporary impressions where erasure, appearance and vibration are brushed with the gaze. From the upper layers to the lower layers, we cross several worlds towards a new dimension. Caroline Canault.