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Philippe Briade
Belgium
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Charcoal on Paper
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 43.3x29.5in
About this artwork
This drawing explores a more ephemeral dimension of organic matter, moving away from the earthy density of roots and bark toward something lighter and less fixed. The marks evoke hair floating in the air, dust suspended in the light, or fragile threads carried by slow movement.
Rather than constructing form through weight and layering, the work reveals itself through gesture, rhythm, and absence. Thin, undulating lines and slight shifts in tone… suggest a presence that tends toward disappearance, a structure that is constantly loosening, dispersing, or recomposing itself.
I am interested in the sensation of near-weightlessness in nature, how particles move invisibly and light reflects off what is almost not there. The drawing then becomes a place of motionless movement, where the natural world is perceived through its breath.
Rather than constructing form through weight and layering, the work reveals itself through gesture, rhythm, and absence. Thin, undulating lines and slight shifts in tone… suggest a presence that tends toward disappearance, a structure that is constantly loosening, dispersing, or recomposing itself.
I am interested in the sensation of near-weightlessness in nature, how particles move invisibly and light reflects off what is almost not there. The drawing then becomes a place of motionless movement, where the natural world is perceived through its breath.
Philippe Briade
Belgium
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Philippe Briade stands out in contemporary art through an approach where drawing becomes living matter and transforming energy. At the crossroads of biomorphism and organic sensibility, his works evoke roots, fibers, spores, or tissues, but without ever representing nature. Rather, they capture the invisible forces that structure and transform living things, blending an instinctive, bodily, and pulsating gesture that imprints the flow of energy onto the paper.
What makes his work unique is its physiological and critical dimension: the drawings reveal points of condensation, pressure zones, and structures on the verge of rupture or formation. Each line translates contraction, torsion, compression, and expansion, exploring the precise moment when matter becomes form.
Between organic, gesture and critical threshold, his works are a space of energy in becoming, fragile and intense, where the internal dynamics of life can be perceived.
What makes his work unique is its physiological and critical dimension: the drawings reveal points of condensation, pressure zones, and structures on the verge of rupture or formation. Each line translates contraction, torsion, compression, and expansion, exploring the precise moment when matter becomes form.
Between organic, gesture and critical threshold, his works are a space of energy in becoming, fragile and intense, where the internal dynamics of life can be perceived.
Philippe Briade
Ephemeral Dimension
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