Vincent Dulom — À propos — Slash Paris

In the course of his artistic peregrinations, Vincent Dulom shed all concept of style in favour of detachment from the artwork and better control of its occurrences. He produces paintings at a single stroke by using a printer to lay a film of pigments on paper or canvas, the result being a halo or a layer of colour. Exemplary in its restraint, this procedure can allow the form to emerge alone with all its tiny variations. This is followed, for artist and viewer alike, by encounters within the work, phenomena happening out of the blue during the time spent with it: a shadow taking shape at the centre of the halo, maybe, or the gradual dissipation of the halo under the unrelenting pressure of the gaze. The transcendent becomes mere contingency, capable of appearing or disappearing within the boundaries of the sensory domain. Dulom’s work lets you conceive, in the very moment of perception, of a somewhere else and a vaster time frame. The experience of each painting involves the body of the spectator, who must, each time, measure him- or herself against it; the summons is to one’s physical relationship with the world. The evolution of Dulom’s works is a matter of bearings and points of view, of positioning in time and space: in short, he accepts the tragic dimension of existence. The drawings, made of flexible metal rods, do the necessary and take shape like omens, leaving the creative act and the resistance of air to arrange them into lines in an arbitrary setting following deliberately approximate protocols. Encounters can only happen at the core of approximation; and the artwork must stay open-ended.

— Antoine Camenen for L’ahah, 2019.
(translation by John Tittensor)