It's tempting to see Yves-Eric 2boy's work with slight amusement. Borrowing from the narratives of storyboards, the clarity of sketch sheets and the systematic linearity of billboards, his paintings seem to suggest - like the effortlessness with which he makes use of the two-dimensional orthonormal world of videogames - that they're easily done. Doubtlessly that's what a first reading might suggest. And yet, we seem captivated by their simplicity, freshness, and apparent spontaneity, and feel drawn to the screen,“bubblicized” by the image.
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Yves-Eric 2boy plays with familiar codes. His abstract spaces and forms are set in perspective and echo a perfectly recognizable form of visual language. They balance the threats from eternally competing worlds: the stable and the moving, the hard and the soft, the solid and the liquid. Yves-Eric 2boy presents us with the token of a rigorous universe. Still, the painter's excitement remains contained; like the visual energy as the image achieves its density. It might be this coherence that invites us to participate, and to believe in the possibility of other worlds.

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Laetitia Chazottes

[Translation by FRANK'S]

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