MEDERIC TURAY

His work - whose hybrid weave intertwines materials of various amplitudes - is driven bya direction of the lines of force of content of adjustable thicknesses, drips, collages,reliefs, coffee, sand, pigments ... His palette of natural tone, is dominated by the shadesof wood, stone and earth, are added other shades of living yellow, blue, green, rust, red.The artist›s touch is now his language

Of affirmed or evanescent appearance, the representations of Médéric Turay, aresimilar to a signature, by their identifiable aspects, thanks to the archetypes, or elementsof writing which impose themselves to the external glances. These forms of perennialimprints, populate the paintings of the artist. It leans on the reference marks of the origins,representations to the emotional virtues incarnate a fortification able to revive in thelooker of the references to the roots, without doubt that of the ancestors.

The viewer sees silhouettes (animal or human, not gendered), placed in the foreground,they are in the process of a hypothetical embryonic development, paradoxically of arusty color synonymous with ‹aging›, sequestered in nets, with long tentacles. One candetect there a search of a face, allowing to reach the other, the other is an impossiblehorizon to seize an identifiable face, a block of inter penetrability, to make accountof the world to be stopped by the otherness of the beings, their legitimate opacityMédéric Turay explores his favorite theme «Resist to exist...», a central leitmotiv of hisresearch, which he integrates in his creation and declines under several forms to dig andincrease its validity, its legitimacy and its evidence.