Pierre Goulag
My work begins where intention dissolves. I paint not with plans, but with presence — through a dialogue between the hand and the unknown. I am drawn to the moment when the body acts before the mind understands, when the hand touches the surface and something wordless begins to emerge. I do not seek to represent the visible world, but rather to trace the currents beneath it — gestures, impulses, movements that bypass logic and speak in the raw syntax of color and texture. My process is instinctive, often performed in silence, allowing the act of painting to reveal what the self cannot articulate. Over the years, my fascination with the autonomy of the body has grown. Like the octopus, whose limbs can think for themselves, I trust my fingers to lead. Each mark is a fragment of a conversation I am overhearing, not conducting. I consider the canvas a field of listening, not assertion. The goal is not control but surrender — to the gesture, to the pigment, to the possibility of a form born without pretense. Painting, for me, is a form of disappearance: of ego, of narrative, of mastery. What remains is presence..
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