FEBRUARY 12TH - MARCH 13TH, 2025
TIMES SUSPENDED / SOLO SHOW
@ Titanium Finance & Akcess Private Office, rue du Rhône 61, Geneva, Switzerland.
“I consider myself a visual artist who works with paint, rather than a painter. At the same time, my work is intimately linked to contemporary art and painting. ”
The possibility of an œuvre
I reflect psychologically on art, memory and time. On this basis, I develop possible avenues for the production of painted works.
The new Times Suspended series thus accompanies the existing My Own Private Museum series (developed from 2023 onwards) and Real Estate series (2017 - 2021, which I will be taking up again in 2025). These interconnected yet different series will be developed in parallel, and will be complemented by new ones, all of which are oriented towards the search for “truth” and the possibility of creating meaning.
My practice is driven by a desire to grasp reality in all its dimensions, in all its possible perceptions, inspired by the facets of the prism of various contemporary practices.
Moreover, my work is not limited to this psychological and introspective dimension, but also analyzes the art of my time, posing as the writing of an apprenticeship...
Times Suspended
Physicists distinguish between the “course of time”, which is the fact that time passes and that we cannot find in the future a moment that we have already passed through in the past, and the “arrow of time”, which is the fact that things change irreversibly.
The question of the perception of time has long interested me. It is evoked in my views of the sea, clouds or mountains, from the window of an airplane. Air travel is a ritual of standing still, and connecting both to the now and to the infinite. This work leads us to question the past, the future and the present that lies in between.
The paintings of the My Own Private Museum series (from 2023) raise the question of the creator's identity and confront the void, the blank page, even the erasure of the self.
Like Woody Allen's Zelig, I tackle a subject dear to psychology : the identification with reference characters in order to be loved, or to avoid rejection. In doing so, I question our need for recognition and our relation to an ubiquitous and growing omniscient digital environment.
In the Real Estate series (from 2017), I explore the relationship between reality and imagination, between knowledge and recognition, blurring limits of perception.
Contemporary masterpieces are combined - sometimes obviously, sometimes implicitly - in imaginary settings where I create new narratives, disconnected from their original context, setting up a complex and highly referenced multi-faceted imaginary dialogue, in which I take up and develop the discourses of the artists I quote.
ABOUT STÉPHANE DUCRET
“I see my work as a psychological wandering through the art world, a questioning of how we are influenced by recurrence and by the art market driven by powerful figures.”
VIDEO
WORK SERIES
TIMES SUSPENDED (FROM 2024)
MY OWN PRIVATE MUSEUM (FROM 2023)
REAL ESTATE (FROM 2017)