Florence Victor

"For your bow is stretched in vain

if you don't have a goal to direct your arrow. "

Alberti, De Pictura

Find an anchor. Stay tied to it throughout labor. Let the images, shapes and colors emerge. Write them on the board. Cover, trace, build, deconstruct, doubt, let shine, keep the thread. Re-register. Wait. To look at. Reflect. Destroy if necessary. Be in the table. Be in the logic of the table which is different each time but each time in connection with the other tables. Wait. To look at. To make choices.

Florence Victor lives and works in Montreal. After training in theater (interpretation, UQAM), she went to Paris where day after day, she frequented museums. In front of a raw earth sketch by Carpeaux, at the Musée d'Orsay, it is shocking; she discovers what she had been looking for in the theater until then: intensity, commitment, communion, density. She then developed an interest in sculpture and, back in Montreal, learned about welding. She entered sculpture at Concordia University with the intention of creating large steel structures that were both imposing and fragile. A combination of circumstances leads her to the painting department where she will find her way.

Urbanity - construction, deconstruction - which was at the heart of his approach in the first years, has remained, but in a metaphorical way. In his paintings, it is a question of monumentality but also of faults, fragility and imbalance. Inspired by Russian theater and literature, his pictorial work is a reflection on the human condition: fragility of life, love, flaws, ruptures, loneliness and hope. His work has always remained linked to these two poles - urbanity and literature - finding there materials, structure and rhythm.