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For L.F.D.A. 02.The paintings by Philippe Perrot collected here were created over the past decade. They are characterised above all by their stylistic similarities : strident colours, the flattening of the picture space, the overturning of conventional perspective, the superimposition of disparate scenes and elements, blurred contours, oil paints and watercolours mixed with medical disinfectants (bethadine, iodine etc.). Philippe Perrot’s paintings draw our gaze : “exploded” pictorial micro-narratives which appeal to our imagination like sequences in some Surrealist film. We may find it difficult to understand what is going on in these scenes, but we can guess at and interpret their content just as, when waking, we try to explain our own dreams. Who are these utterly monstrous yet familiar figures, seemingly crashed against the surface of the pictures/screens ? What is the meaning of the objects floating around them, why the splashes of vivid, violent colour ? Wounded men, half-naked women, disfigured, dismembered, shapeless bodies cohabit the picture space with fish and birds. They devour courgettes, play with matches or phallic objects, all with no explanation beyond the often enigmatic titles : Joystick, ta mère n’est pas ta mère, La pipe : mamie attend un bébé, Baignade la nuit par crainte du jour… (“Your mother is not your mother ; Blow job [“la pipe”] : grandma’s expecting a baby ; Bathing by night for fear of the day…”). Philippe Perrot’s works represent the changing states of the soul : complex, telescopic visions based on everyday hallucinations, family secrets meticulously concealed. Philippe PerrotPhilippe Perrot paints family secrets as well as scenes from the fragmented experience of daily life. His paintings, peopled with characters who are often shapeless, angular, caricatured and burlesque, disturbing the concentration of the visitor's viewing with their reversed perspective and chaotic structure, forcing one to wander among them as one will. Pierced with troubling holes, wounds still open, disproportionate or even dismembered, these characters surround themselves with monstrous beings, organic matter or everyday objects which here become motifs and impregnated with symbolic meanings. [V. Th.] Philippe Perrot was born in 1967 in Paris.
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