Les Papillons
Carpentras, France.
July – August 2017
In 2017, I participated in the exhibition “Les Papillons” in Carpentras, an event dedicated to painting and visual expression organized by Yad El Art.
The exhibition gathered multiple artists within a shared environment, where each work contributed to a broader dialogue around transformation, lightness, and movement, echoing the symbolic language of the butterfly.
For this occasion, I produced a large-scale acrylic painting on canvas measuring 200 × 140 cm, engaging with scale as both a physical and perceptual condition. The format required a more embodied approach to painting, where gesture, proximity, and surface interaction became central to the process.
The resulting work operates as a constructed visual field rather than a purely illustrative image. It presents two arguing birds with human hands, positioned on oversized, stylised floral forms. The composition unfolds within a surreal, staged space in which contradiction and play coexist.
Built through a palette of bright summer tones and set against a saturated pink ground, the work establishes a deliberate tension between figuration and abstraction, humour and intensity. These elements coexist within a deliberately unstable visual balance, oscillating between theatricality and lightness.
The engagement with a 200 × 140 cm surface further reinforced an ongoing interest in large-scale painting and its capacity to activate physical presence within space.