La bascule, 2025

Gwénolé Livinec   New & remarkable Artists

This work, entitled The seesaw, is part of the exhibition "The Others", addressing otherness through a form of architectural, almost cartographic abstraction.
Dans La bascule, evokes a suspended, delicate moment, where something is in the process of transforming.
The ochre background acts as a warm, welcoming, almost organic surface. It doesn't block, it supports. On this expanse, the bluish lines descend with a certain lightness: they glide, like threads, fine rain, or delicate trajectories.
At their extremities, the bursting forms resemble less impacts than blossomings—points of emergence. They are not shocks, but apparitions. Something takes shape, gently, upon contact with the ground. It evokes more the birth of a relationship than a collision.
The vertical signs on the right are no longer abrupt exclamations, but rather discreet presences, like attempts at language, stammering in the face of the other. They are part of a fragile communication, still in the process of being constructed.
The isolated figure on the left is not so much withdrawn as in a position of listening or attentiveness. It seems to be a witness to what is unfolding, perhaps on the verge of its own tipping point. It is not excluded: it is on the edge of the experience.
Thus, the title "La bascule" does not refer to a fall or a violent break, but to a subtle passage — an almost imperceptible moment where one leaves one position for another. It is an inner shift, an opening.