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Philippe Briade
Belgium
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15 pieces
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
My work explores the slow and complex language of nature: the layered textures of moss, the fibrous pull of roots, peeling bark, the silent persistence of branches stretching and decaying. Through drawing, I explore how these elements intertwine, overlap, and evolve over time, creating forms that resist a fixed identity but remain rooted in the material logic of the forest floor and the organic cycles of growth and decay.
I am drawn to textures… that seem alive but indefinable: strands that resemble roots or fur, surfaces reminiscent of bark or feathers, spaces that could be cavities or fungal pores. These are not direct representations, but imaginary forms inspired by the complexity of nonhuman life and the invisible systems that support it.
I am drawn to textures… that seem alive but indefinable: strands that resemble roots or fur, surfaces reminiscent of bark or feathers, spaces that could be cavities or fungal pores. These are not direct representations, but imaginary forms inspired by the complexity of nonhuman life and the invisible systems that support it.
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
Zigzagging My Way
$4,070
