This contemporary artwork depicts a landscape scene composed of various shades of green, brown, and gray. The predominant visual elements are the stacked wooden planks in the foreground, which are rendered using broad, expressive brushstrokes. The overall composition suggests a sense of disarray or fragmentation, with the scattered wooden planks contrasting with the lush, verdant background. The artist's style appears to be a blend of realism and abstraction, employing distinctive techniques to capture the essence of the subject matter. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to explore themes of decay, impermanence, or the relationship between nature and human-made structures. ...
Marion Chaillou reimagines the everyday through a lens of domestic intimacy and digital culture. Her work blends painting and sculpture to explore the construction of self-narrative in an age dominated by social media and mobile photography. Chaillou paints daily gouaches based on photographs taken with her mobile phone. Each piece follows a strict protocol: same dimensions, same gouache technique, numbered and annotated with a comment. These small-format works—depicting meals, selfies, or landscapes—are then scanned and stored, transforming fleeting digital moments into tangible, autobiographical objects. Her sculptural works further this exploration, using elements of domestic furniture and clothing to question the gendered functions of objects and their underlying power structures. By juxtaposing these forms with her gouache miniatures, Chaillou creates a dialogue between the functionality of the works and new forms of intimacy. Through repetition and restraint, Chaillou's practice becomes a meditation on the self in the digital age, offering a nuanced reflection on memory, identity, and the act of seeing. ...
