La Terre Brûlée

2021, acrylic on canvas, 120x80cm

This painting can be read as a map of a territory after an event that did not explode, but drained. It left no crater, only silence. The pandemic is not depicted here as a moment of crisis, but as a prolonged process that scorched the ground without visible flames.

The circles and markings resemble records, checkpoints, attempts at orientation. As if someone were redrawing a world that still exists, but no longer matches its former coordinates. The centers remain, systems continue to function, yet the energy has not returned. There is no sign of growth, only the structure that survived.

The color palette is muted, fatigued. It does not express fear or grief, but the state that follows them. A burned land that does not try to regenerate, because it does not yet know what renewal would even mean. This is not destruction, but exhaustion — a condition that cannot be rushed or repaired.

La Terre Brûlée is not an image of catastrophe, but of aftermath. Of a world that goes on, stripped of illusions of returning to what came before. It maps a time when survival was not enough to feel alive, and when recovery was not a matter of will, but of time that cannot be forced.