Ambition, 2023

Zerka   New & remarkable Artists

Our faces tell who we are.
I have always thought I knew how to detect, even through a speech swollen with assurance, an unspeakable fragility in the face of the person who utters it. Something that doesn't lie.
At the time of the selfie, of instantaneity, of the social mask and of the fantasized self, the painting of portraits is part of a longer, immutable time, it freezes being and its emotion, it brings

nuance in an increasingly binary world, in increasingly divisive debates. The subjects that I choose to paint express with their eyes ambiguous emotions with multiple interpretations and invite the spectator to enter into introspection, in dialogue with

my works.
I like the idea of being able to deduce a biography, a life story, from a simple facial expression.
Thus, my portraits tell the story of my subjects, often the story of their fractures, their

pains, which I transcribe by the use of the line, brittle and clear.
If a certain violence can sometimes emanate from my art, I always bring a remedy, a bandage, because the solution to our ills is, in my opinion, found in optimism, the sun, in an explosion of colors.
Faithful to my first love, acrylic remains my favorite pictorial technique and, the work on canvas, corresponds because of its organic character to my subject.
The superposition of elements, of layers, is the central element of my creative process, like

if we were only an addition of moments, a millefeuille of lived moments.
In this same approach, I gladly leave my construction traits apparent, thus reinforcing the idea of a personality in the process of being made, of a self in continual renewal.