The État Second is a transient state characterized by a narrowing of the field of consciousness. This is the state where consciousness gives way to the senses, feeling things then taking precedence over the idea of analyzing them.
Throughout History, artists seeking access to creation, stimulation, paths to transmittable imaginary, sought this state, notably through introspection, an appeal to the dreams, or even, for some, by taking psychotropics products.
Today, the five artists of the gallery presented for this new exhibition will all plunge the viewer into this trance, this état second.
With Jin Bo, this state is transcribed through a technique specific to the artist "When I paint, I seek an elsewhere." The blur of movement and the high precision in achieving some details takes the viewer into the depths of being.
For Hom Nguyen, virulence, the speed of the strokes, an execution like a kind of automatic writing with these intermingling lines, have a kind of hypnotic effect on the viewer, who would get lost inside. This new series of self-portraits appears as an invitation to meditation.
The works of Gaël Davrinche offer us different interpretations of reflections of a soul, a soul who needs to express itself, to show itself. Between dream and nightmare, the state of each at the time of the confrontation will lead us to a world just barely palpable, just barely conceivable, but extremely powerful.
Kent Williams’s works, sort of modern vanitas, combine beauty and youth of the bodies to human bones. Here too, dream and nightmare become one. The swinging between abstraction and realism is undeniable. The figures themselves, in this abstract landscape, seem to float, ghostlike, in the meanders of our subconscious or in that of the artist.
Finally, Emeric Chantier, through his sculptures mixing industrial materials and natural elements, invites the viewer to think, or even to become aware, of the relationship between Man and nature. In addition, the artist defines his work as "poetic narratives" and, in the words of the French philosopher Edgar Morin, the purpose of poetry is to put us in an état second, or rather that this “second state” becomes first.
