ART | TALENT
ABOUT
George Rouy is interested in the body as landscape. In his paintings, lines smudge and forms distend; figures—alone and in groups, seen and unseen—take on a spectral quality as they shift and bleed into one another. Though analogue, his work has a strangely digital intensity. Glitched, multiplied, and frozen, the unstable anatomies that populate his canvases seem formed by a state of overload. “We are forever in flux,” he explains, “forever shifting modes.” Rouy works from life, but not from models. He creates his work by splicing together images found online with photographs of his own works. The resulting forms are familiar but unknowable. Without eyes, they have no gaze to return our own. Instead, they function like reflections or shadows, forms onto which we can transfer something of ourselves.
Talent: George Rouy
Photographer: Léon Prost @ Management core
Stylist: Gabriella Norberg
Styling Assistant: Elizaweta Grachewa
With special thanks to Hauser & Wirth
