Impression, soleil couchant, 2014
Black fabric stretched on frame and solar print /
48 x 63 cm

       On a simple black canvas of modest size, an inscription appears little by little: "Impression, soleil couchant".
       A conceptual copy of Claude Monet's masterpiece which gave its name to Impressionism, it takes up both its exact dimensions and its subject (light).
       

       However, it is a sunset and not a sunrise and the technique used is somewhat original.

       Indeed, it is the rays of this star that make the written mention appear on the support of the work by making the black color of the canvas gradually disappear in places.

       There is thus here a play between language and technique, a confusion of the genres between content and form and consequently a tautological aspect: the work presents only what it is (the impression of a canvas exposed for several months to the South-West, i.e. to the setting sun).