Through a series of king size canvases and works on tracing paper, Bénédicte Dussère leads us into the shadow, catching the deep and dense form where a diffuse light appears.
“Out of a landscape, from a mysterious atmosphere, that the moments of life offer me, one or a few figures appear suddenly or fade away. We have no idea where they come from but they don’t just come from anywhere. My painting is right at the edge of abstract and figurative, you don’t lose neither the object nor the shape from sight but all is suggested more than imposed. It finds its meaning in the course of the creating process. Memory and imagination work together revealing the emotion of a moment.”
Bénédicte Dussère is searching through a color palette mainly composed with black and white, light and shadow. Most of the tools she uses are designed and created by her in order to obtain specific and desired results: the sweeping feel of a canvas, reworking areas with handmade brushes, making lines and composition disappear, and the leaving of track marks will be the first step of the painting with a more finale precise gesture with its own idea to express as the end result.
Bénédicte Dussère was born in 1954. She lives and works near Paris.