Abstract paintings by Kouzya

KOUZYA's work is born from the encounter between the tradition of the nude and our era of image saturation.

The latter is multiple and draws on the most academic and noble references of the History of Art through its landscapes, portraits, mythological subjects, as well as in the most ordinary or even vile repertoire such as that of wallpaper landscapes and advertising. The encounter is iconoclastic because it subverts academicism by making a simple material and raises the most basic images to the rank of the most marvelous draperies.

In the artist's work, the nude is both hypertrophied by close-ups and hidden by the projection of pixels.

The body is given to be read in this in-between of the presence of the living, of the mystery of the skin and the stopping of the gesture, and of forgetting the matter of the flesh in favor of the projection surface. This surface, not being flat, folds the projected image, gives it roundness and hollows, nuances its colors, and invites the spectator to a game that makes the latter active in front of the painting that offers itself as an enigma: what part of the body do we have before our eyes?

This is how, instead of offering itself in its obviousness, the body escapes us and the labyrinth of lines that unfolds before us invites us to a playful and carnal wandering. We become the indiscreet gaze whose object escapes us, intrigues us, lets itself be glimpsed, plays with us and offers itself to our own imagination.