A privileged moment, you leave your studio as if waking up from a dream. Eyes filled to the brim with colors and daydreams. This is exactly what happens to us through Victor’s work: dreams and visions rising from the deepest depths of our memory. No, I’m not talking about memories. This type of painting doesn’t remind the viewer of a particular moment from their life. To believe that would be to fall under the spell of illusion. No, we are really confronted with visions, offered in garlands of colors for those who know how to take the time to explore. For those who know how to project their own unconscious onto these paintings without the intervention of preconceptions.
Victor’s work refers to what our modern societies have eliminated from our habits: patience. The patience to immerse ourselves. The patience to withdraw from everything that is external and that diverts us from our own “I”. The patience to contemplate and be submerged. This takes us back to our humanity, reminding each of us of the totality of our feelings and the dark sides of ourselves.
It takes us back to our childhood, when we searched the obsolete patterns of tapestries for figures and shapes that no one could distinguish anymore and that the fading daylight transformed into forms and actions that didn’t always seem friendly.
Leaving Victor’s studio full of energy, patience and visions full of color, rejuvenated and full of joy. Delighted to welcome him to the Town Hall and present or re-present him to the Civraisian public. This original artist who chose his city not just as a place to live, but a place to create and the happiness that brings.
I give you this “billet d’humeur” as an invitation card for a journey into Victor’s work. Travel in this bizarre world in which you live and he lives and from which you can only come out enriched or, at least, moved as often as the child still inside him was.