Frantz Patrick Henry

I have an earthly thought! It is the concentrated formula that conceals the scent of my artistic practice. Driven by a desire for understanding, the material becomes my interlocutor, it informs me about the world, about myself, about my technical and conceptual capacities.

I use the lyrical form in painting and in sculpture, because for me it is a rhythmic cry that brings out personal traits. This approach to art allows me to access a state of consciousness that James Joyce describes well: “when I perform, I am more aware of the moment of emotion than of myself experiencing this emotion ”. I create with this meditative spirit because I want to capture the changes that are taking place in me. I use construction materials, as a metaphor, to constantly have articles to rebuild what keeps coming undone, that is to say oneself.

 Iconographically, I reinterpret certain mythical stories by hybridizing my story with that of the protagonist. Thus, I excessively colorize, zoom in, reframe and play with scales to alter the meaning of these stories and integrate them into a personal mythology. By appropriating everyday objects deviated from their function, my works are most often deployed in the form of a site, inviting the viewer to experience the work in the mode of a social geography.

With this technical and conceptual baggage, I use painting and sculpture for the sake of reinvention and relationship, paradoxical conditions of permanence and renewal of being.