In Conversation belongs to the Josiane series, which explores the relationships between painting, memory, and domestic space. In this staged... Read More
In Conversation belongs to the Josiane series, which explores the relationships between painting, memory, and domestic space. In this staged self-portrait, the artist is depicted in her studio, surrounded by her own paintings and wearing the same household smock as the figures she portrays—a recurring motif that connects the different temporalities of her work.
The book held in her hands, the paintings in the background, and the open notebook form a constellation of presences rather than a simple setting. Together, they create a space for reflection where studio practice, the images that accompany it, and the time required for their making converge. The drips running across the surface emphasize the materiality of paint, allowing the traces of the artist’s gesture to remain visible.
Through this self-portrait, the Josiane series approaches painting as a space of dialogue where memory, experience, and visual inheritance continually encounter and transform one another. The studio emerges as a place of reflection as much as of creation, where images, objects, and time participate in the making of meaning.
