Marie-France Gely

I want to express the tensions and contradictions that inhabit us. My belonging to art is a way of giving voice to emotions and thoughts that would otherwise remain unexpressed.

Contact with matter is essential to me, it allows me to connect with the work in progress. Each brushstroke is a gesture, a silent conversation with the canvas where matter and spirit meet.

My painting is a reflection on our place in the world. Each work is an attempt to capture the complexities of human existence, the wounds of our society and the process of destruction and recomposition that define us. In painting I seek to understand how our individual experiences shape our identity.

My thought triggers the gesture, precedes it, it is a way of giving form to abstract concepts, each work begins with emotion or a question.

The process of breaking down to reassemble in a new reality brings me closer to a metaphor of human life. Tears are the essentials of this dynamic. With my collages I seek to transform, to rebuild, to show that even in the most complex moments, it is possible to find a glimmer of hope to return to unity. Human beings have this capacity.

My art is a quest for meaning, the exploration of a dialogue with the world, listening to individual experiences where the work of my cut-out, glued, re-glued, mixed papers allows us to return to unity.

Each fragment or touch of paint is an essential piece towards a coherent whole.

I want to denounce the fragmentation of the human being by the excesses of our societies, the omnipresence of information and the assaults of remote-controlled stupefaction.

In short, my artistic approach is a personal and collective odyssey, an attempt to create a bridge between the inside and the outside, between oneself and the world.