Perhaps it is the interest that I have, beyond painting, in the representation of absence, in traces and fragments – I collect images from behind paintings. I am attracted by their typographic vestiges and their narrative potential. In 2019, I started a series of digital collages, hiding or revealing the labels accumulated over time. Then the idea came to me to make these sides speak: how to make people feel, imagine, getting emotionnal about a painting hidden from their eyes? From the raw material of the collages and the dominant blue (at the same time a common thread, an activation color and a potential narrative surface), I imagined a visual and sound installation.

The scenography is based on five prints of the backs of paintings, to which “listening alcoves” are associated, which provide sound fragments collected before the exhibition using an audio guide. We thus offer the public the opportunity to activate a personal imagination regarding what they hear from the paintings.