4 Grues
"Japan, a fasciting but also disturbing country, is central in my work.Its complexity resides in the fact that it has various faces (art, gastronomy, tradition but also modernism) which blend with the numerous stereotypes of the japanese culture in western countries.In my paintings, I question the notion of strong but intouchable identity of the land of the Rising Sun by enlightening its numerous different caracteristics.Thus I use without distinction images of the "kawaii" culture and esthetic (which means cute), as much as images representing japanese tradition (geisha, engravings, origami, sushi), or urban tokyoit landscapes.I wish to emphasize the contrast of an ambivalent society: on the one hand a society that is deeply attached to an omnipresent culture and tradition, and on the other hand, a society that is constantly racing with technology and modernism. I express it with a very pure pictorial technique but full of details and clichés."
