Habiting Intimacy
About the painting La fille dans les draps jaunes, acrylic on canvas, 120 × 80 cm
There are moments that ask for nothing.
They do not seek explanation, nor narration.
They exist in a state of quiet surrender, barely perceptible.
La fille dans les draps jaunes belongs to such moments.
Yellow fills the space — not as a vibrant color, but as a lived material.
It envelops the bed, folds, creases, stretches.
It becomes a silent field of forces within which the body settles without resistance.
The female figure lies down, seen from above.
The gaze does not dominate; it accompanies.
It follows the line of a back, the curve of a leg, the resting point of a foot.
Nothing is demonstrative.
Everything is held.
The body as place, the bed as architecture
In this painting, the body is not placed on the bed —
it belongs to it.
The sheets are not a backdrop.
They are a territory.
Their stripes, their thickness, their apparent disorder construct a soft, shifting architecture, almost organic.
The human figure inhabits this space as one inhabits something familiar.
Without tension.
Without expectation.
This is not a nude offered to the gaze,
but a body relieved of function.
A body that stops being seen in order simply to be.
A restrained narration
No clear story unfolds.
Nothing indicates what comes before or after.
This narrative silence is not emptiness;
it is an invitation.
Each viewer may project their own memory, sensation, inner tempo.
Morning may be near, or very far away.
The light is neither warm nor cold — it is interior.
The painting does not describe an intimate scene.
It establishes a state.
Figurative painting of attachment
What runs through this work is a discreet form of attachment.
Attachment to the body, to matter, to immediate space.
The posture is not spectacular.
It is simply right.
In my work, the human figure often becomes a point of balance between presence and withdrawal.
Here, it plays no role.
It performs nothing.
It settles.
The gaze, in turn, is invited to slow down.
To remain.
To accept not understanding immediately.
Artwork details
Title: La fille dans les draps jaunes - (The girl in the yellow sheets)
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 120 × 80 cm
Original unique artwork
An ongoing exploration of intimacy
This painting belongs to a broader exploration of human posture as a silent language.
The body does not tell a precise story here.
It suggests a way of being in the world — fragile and stable at once.
To paint this moment is to accept that it can never be fully grasped.
That it remains, in part, suspended.
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