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L. Joss
France
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Artist highlights
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Colored Pencil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 45.7x31.9in
About this artwork
In L'Attente Silencieuse, the viewer becomes an active witness, essential to the work. The young woman's posture, closed but not defensive, seems to invite a silent dialogue. Her slightly shifty gaze raises a question: is she really waiting for someone or is she projecting her wait onto us?
The spectator, an invisible but decisive presence, completes the work by giving meaning to this wait. Far from being a simple observer, he plays an ambiguous… role: is he the one she is waiting for or an intruder in this moment of intimacy?
This interaction redefines waiting, transforming it from a solitary act into a shared space. Through his gaze, the spectator brings the work to life, becoming an actor in this tension and vulnerability. He is invited to reflect on his own involvement in this suspended moment, where waiting only exists because he is there to perceive it.
The spectator, an invisible but decisive presence, completes the work by giving meaning to this wait. Far from being a simple observer, he plays an ambiguous… role: is he the one she is waiting for or an intruder in this moment of intimacy?
This interaction redefines waiting, transforming it from a solitary act into a shared space. Through his gaze, the spectator brings the work to life, becoming an actor in this tension and vulnerability. He is invited to reflect on his own involvement in this suspended moment, where waiting only exists because he is there to perceive it.
L. Joss
France
Credentials
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
L. Joss (Luc Josserand) is a French painter, born in 1964 in Firminy.
L. Joss develops a pictorial practice centered on the human figure and the conditions of its presence.
Trained in a demanding approach to representation, his work has gradually shifted its focus towards areas of instability, where the continuities of reality fragment. His recent paintings introduce distortions that affect both space and perception, as if reality itself were becoming uncertain.
At the boundary between matter and consciousness, his work engages painting in a field of tension where the visible is no longer sufficient.
Painting, therefore, no longer consists of representing reality, but of experiencing its formation.
L. Joss develops a pictorial practice centered on the human figure and the conditions of its presence.
Trained in a demanding approach to representation, his work has gradually shifted its focus towards areas of instability, where the continuities of reality fragment. His recent paintings introduce distortions that affect both space and perception, as if reality itself were becoming uncertain.
At the boundary between matter and consciousness, his work engages painting in a field of tension where the visible is no longer sufficient.
Painting, therefore, no longer consists of representing reality, but of experiencing its formation.
L. Joss
L'Attente
$7,290
