Mélusine Roux

I want to paint to the bone. I want to paint the marks of life in the body.
It’s about feeling the body in its fragility through frontal compositions that emphasize the struggle of the living to exist.
The tension between paradoxes—swirl and stiffness, simplicity and sophistication—responds in power dynamics that evoke the movement of life.
It endures in the coexistence of opposing and contradictory things.
Bodies appear and disappear, using techniques like scraping or sanding the surface.
The body’s degradation is expressed through uneven application of material, like different layers of skin surfacing.
All this creates a swarm, a vitality.
This agitation materializes mainly in the recurring swirl—a pleasure of painting in itself—drawing from expressive baroque forms.