Java VI, 2026

Yoann Bonneville (YBA)   Emerging artists

With his looks that catch our eye, YBA (2000) renews the portrait, tracing the faces of diversity, a message of unity full of emotions.

Attracted to urban arts since his early childhood, this young man from Nantes experiments with different techniques and even goes so far as to create his own work tools.

From face to face, YBA's paintings captivate as much by the mastery of technique as by the brilliance of the subject.

A true autodidact, he alternately uses acrylic, aerosol and superposition of collages, seeking to decipher our emotions, our looks, our freedom, our era and our society. The portrait has naturally been at the heart of YBA's approach, he questions our humanity with passion and accuracy behind the purely aesthetic beauty of faces and the strong emotions that result from them.

YBA superimposes techniques whose sole motivation is to make us forget them.

"My faces, fragmented, encrusted, worn, built around the three letters Y, B and A, composed of my signature, my artist name Yba represent the DNA of my art" (...) are simply human beings at the heart of this whirlwind that carries us away and which is called life. » Yoann Bonneville's paintings are centered on the faces of human diversity; through intense looks, he immortalizes the era in which he lives, the world around us, the street and the people who inspire him.