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Jérôme Boccia
SOUVENIRS D'OH !
23/02/2025 - 06/04/2025
solo show
opening Sunday 23/02/2025

2 pm - 7 pm

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From visual impressions to mental representations, Souvenirs d'Oh! is the echo of fluid contemplation. It is a verbal proposition. Here, the verb is action, like the gesture in motion that marks and reveals the hidden motifs that lie in the mind of the creator. The verb in thought is therefore nothing other than the gesture that traces and expresses an idea.
If technique can restore the image of a memory, it can also speak of the gaze that retains the memory. So, painting a reflection or a ripple evokes the idea of apparent movement. This movement, in Souvenirs d'Oh! is about water: water that circulates, that moves forward and wavers at the whim of obstacles, currents and the wind. And like the mind, water is fluid when the thought always runs free, while it stops and consolidates like the thought that crystallises, where the fixed idea arises. But here, in these contemplations, the water flows and moves forward without ever surrendering, neither blocked nor frozen at the foot of any idea.
Souvenirs d'Oh! is therefore a work of after-memory, a poem made up of images and a narrative extracted from gestures, as well as the expression of a naive wonder for what remains beautiful when the world goes up in flames and solastalgia surfaces. It is an expression of astonishment that resonates and escapes, like air bubbles that rise and rise and rise and then burst: Oh!

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