Yéanzi

A close and tangible social network is the starting point of Yéanzi's art. In his work, gazes, attitudes and bodies are constantly in motion. The artist uses accounts and records of people’s stories on a canvas covered with press cuttings, snippets of news, which he paints and mixes in successive layers, passages and tumults. In a painting made without a brush, but with fire, and as it passes through the flames, the plastic becomes colourful and transforms itself, leaving small deposits of its material on the support. As if trying to unravel the mystery of what it is that gives us the power to constantly redefine ourselves, combustion acts as a balance between mind and body, weighing what is lost, what resists and what melts. ...