François Paris's drawings seem to be born of a desire for stories. Fragmentary and essential elements of a narrative that exceeds them, they are so many…
François Paris's drawings seem to be born of a desire for stories. Fragmentary and essential elements of a narrative that exceeds them, they are so many possible paths activating a world in permanent construction. Gathered from the flow of images circulating on the internet or made specially, the photographs that serve the artist as starting points have diverse qualities. Singular or anecdotal, they often evoke the body or the mechanism, the human face or skull… They refer to fleetingness and appearance. Each drawing constitutes the starting point of an elliptical narrative to be invented. François Paris's exhibitions are therefore open scenarios, sequences. In this sense, one could say that these works borrow as much from cinema as from photography: viewpoints, framings, characters, clues, but also, and above all, this capacity to set in place elements able to open the way to the imaginary. Guillaume Mansart View of the exhibition La Conjoncture du Hasard, François Paris, 2018, Galerie Eva Vautier Photo © François Fernandez. Nicolas Schevin's drawings propel the viewer into experiences of dreamlike, at times feverish, visions. Using a digital medium, he creates collages, compositions often enlarged from his spontaneous drawings, sketches or drafts, thus creating a tension between the outline and the digital drawing. This clandestine work of assembly organises impossible or ill-advised encounters between figures and fragments of text, always resting on a fragile balance.
