For this site-specific work, I chose a work by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres because, like me, he was a student at what is now the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse. It's a way for me to pay homage to him, to link the old and the new while exploring the ways in which painting can be today.

This study of painting involves looking at a painting solely through its colour repertoire. I have used a neutral form that evokes colour charts in order to deny the quantities and shapes associated with the colours in the original painting. In this way, I am conducting an experiment on the autonomy of colours, how they behave in relation to each other and how they are perceived in space.

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Portrait de Caroline de Rivière

Wall painting

38 x 473 cm

View of the exhibition Mur #8, isdaT, Toulouse , FR.

2013