Selfportrait
Fascinated by the Anatomical Angel, a work by the engraver Jacques-Fabien Gauthier d'Agoty (Woman seen from the back, dissected from the nape of the neck to the sacrum, 1745), I used it as the starting point for my digital transformation work, intended to be painted in oils, in accordance with 18th-century pictorial rules.
Through this transformation, I deliver my intimate expression, my ulcerated vision of open bodies and interiors (physical and psychological), bruised and flayed.
I express the ephemerality of the flesh through my attraction to this splendid morbidity,
which allows me to make the unbearable accessible, close to the 'beautiful', far from the material reality of dissection.
My compulsive attraction to this beauty allows me to tame my awareness of my own finitude.
Through this transformation, I deliver my intimate expression, my ulcerated vision of open bodies and interiors (physical and psychological), bruised and flayed.
I express the ephemerality of the flesh through my attraction to this splendid morbidity,
which allows me to make the unbearable accessible, close to the 'beautiful', far from the material reality of dissection.
My compulsive attraction to this beauty allows me to tame my awareness of my own finitude.
Somewhere between still life and self-portrait.
The stages of the transformation: the original work - the digital transformation - the oil painting process
The final result : oil painting - 120 cm x 98 cm
In this depiction of a flayed back, in which I put myself on stage, I sought to express the power of my human fragility and my primitive fears.
In this depiction of a flayed back, in which I put myself on stage, I sought to express the power of my human fragility and my primitive fears.
Like a theatre of the soul, this painting reveals my layers of complex and sometimes contradictory emotions, offering a visual metaphor for the total exposure of my soul.
This staging, deliberately on the borderline between horror and aesthetics, reveals the beauty and power of authentic vulnerability.
Digital transformation in Photoshop
The source of my inspiration : the Anatomical Angel, by the engraver Jacques-Fabien Gauthier d'Agoty (Woman seen from the back, dissected from the nape of the neck to the sacrum, 1745).
