Valentin Bajolle’s charcoal works tell the story of living matter, where reflections, sensations and forms borrowed from the real and the imaginary are freely arranged. Between ambiguous narration and spontaneous contemplation, mental landscapes, hybrid beings and fluid mechanics are revealed in turn, in semi-scripted spaces that concentrate more questions than answers.<\/p>\n
What belongs to the world is marked by the seal of impermanence. Like charcoal, itself the product of transformation, these works attempt to capture the fragments of an ongoing metamorphosis. Are we witnessing the beginning or the end of an event? At what point in the cycle are we? Several layers of images and possible meanings coincide, shaping a space for us to explore.
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Imprints<\/em><\/p>\n Valentin Bajolle’s painting exists in its own right, and reveals itself without detours. It reveals an autonomous space, governed by its own coherence, in which each individual is free to evolve. Each painting bears witness to a\u00a0spontaneous exploration of matter. This research relies on the physical properties of paint – viscosity, transparency, intensity – by diverting the tools ordinarily associated with it. In a constantly evolving process, color accumulates on the surface, then\u00a0recedes in a series of successive cycles. Gradually, light and movement are revealed on the canvas. The finished work is the result of a process juggling chance and control, a point of balance.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n “\u2009Valentin Bajolle opens up an inner space through modulation, where the material of the air comes alive in a blackness rediscovered between torment and\u00a0impetus, violence and tenderness, punch and caress. Her paintings are nervous, with intertwining textures. It’s a slow vertigo that catches up, a dance between the attraction of the earth and the light that emerges from it, between weight and lightness. In short, life. ” . Fluids<\/em><\/p>\n Combining painting and drawing, this series presents imaginary landscapes governed by phenomena linked to nature: erosion, eruption, fusion, growth. Matter becomes in turn solid, liquid or vaporous. It seems to be the product of\u00a0a\u00a0chemical or physical reaction within a space, giving rise to an object. <\/p>\n In a process initially akin to automatic writing, during which matter accumulates on the canvas, Valentin Bajolle seek to reveal zones of confrontation and friction. These zones are expressed by a framing that determines a silhouette, thus completing the formation of a figure. The painting then resides on the\u00a0border between two states, the frontality of abstraction and the illusion of\u00a0the represented object. <\/p>\n The surfaces shown are the emerging point of a volume deployed in all its depth. They are constructed by the black-white binomial, a chiaroscuro stretching from the hidden to the revealed. What eludes us in the shadows is\u00a0the painting’s inaccessibility, the indiscernible part that establishes form in\u00a0a\u00a0space of which we never grasp more than a fragment.<\/p>\n . Valentin Bajolle’s charcoal works tell the story of living matter, where reflections, sensations and forms borrowed from the real and the imaginary are freely arranged. Between ambiguous narration and spontaneous contemplation, mental landscapes, hybrid beings and fluid mechanics are revealed in turn, in semi-scripted spaces that concentrate more questions than answers. What belongs to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-2022.php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinbajolle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJeanne Gatard, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
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