Paul Bonnet — Les Bains-Douches, Alençon
Paul Bonnet (born in 1990) unfolds at the Bains-Douches of Alençon, with his solo exhibition Trespass, a dreamlike painting where organic specters merge into landscapes that vibrate with contrasts as silent as they are eloquent in their mysteries.
The organic ensembles converse, respond to, or oppose each other, but each work opens a window onto the experience of limits. The colors—warm ochres, deep greens, faded sanguines, and muted greys—create counterpoints that are as unexpected as they are strangely coherent in a compositional art that shifts from fullness to emptiness, from control to letting go, all with the constant ambiguity of the title.
“Trespass” evokes both an unauthorized intrusion and an inescapable echo of its French counterpart, invoking the passage from life to death. Beneath these visions lies the artist’s experimental practice with image and sound (as an active musician on the lo-fi scene), blending aesthetics and historical images to blur and destabilize the atmospheres.
This experience is further enhanced by the choice of the white cube’s presentation, which highlights the dichotomy of a painting tested by urgency and distanced from temporality, where architectures, plant trunks, minerals, celestial bodies, and human forms navigate within the same flow. It subtly invites the gaze to transcend its perception of the canvas as a boundary.
