PIERRE GERVOIS

Pierre Gervois is a NYC based artist. He started painting in 1988, and incorporated elements of language in his work in 2000. Since 2019, his work is the witness of the American society, without judgement, emotion, or stated point of view.

“Although I use language in my work, I’m neither a novelist nor a poet. I’m a painter. And the elements of language that inhabit my paintings do not exist separately from the entire painting. They are organically part of the subject (the black rectangle) and the singularity (the small rectangle on the right side). These elements of language lose their meaning if they are considered separately and therefore cannot be considered as quotes. They are exactly what they are, in their purest and original intent, as markings on a material surface of undefined scale”, said Pierre Gervois.

City Life is a series of ten digital photographs representing the views of the city and its environment as it is rediscovered in the last weeks of May 2020.After weeks of confinement following the COVID-19 quarantine. Our eyes are slowly looking upwards, watching our environment, and looking for clues about the structural changes we are expecting to have happened during these weeks. Colliding with the public debate about acknowledging white privilege, the end of quarantine catalyzes all American society’s anxieties and forces everyone to rethink and re-frame our accepted positions in the social field.