Yann Lacroix

b. 1986, Clermont Ferrand, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Through the practice of painting, Yann Lacroix's landscapes deploy a utopian and fantasized iconography, guided by his memories of trips and the potential memory of these silent places. Their luxuriant appearance is reminiscent of the most popular travel destinations, which have become symptomatic of a desire to reconnect with a lost paradise, causing paradoxically the creation of artificial spaces. In his works, these places are transformed into a mirror of painting punctuated by the play of appearances. The blurred areas contrast with the detailed as a research around the potential evanescent nature of the images. Like metaphors of the process of memory, Yann Lacroix's works thus combine blurred spaces and particularly precise areas, creating strong contrasts. The canvas becomes a surface in which discoveries are made. The layering of technique and colour results in superimposed landscapes that obliterate reality. There is a theatrical quality that emerges through the luminosity of colour and the notion of time in suspense.

Lacroix's work has been shown in international institutions and galleries, such as Parc Saint Léger, Centre d'art contemporain, in partnership with Musée de la faïence et des beaux-arts de Nevers, France; Fondation Bullukian, Lyon, France; Abbaye de Fontevraud, France; Les Eglises: Centre d'art de la Ville de Chelles, France; Pracownia Portraitu gallery, Lodz, Poland; Cartel Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; Au Shed, Centre D'art Contemporain De Normandie, France; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain.

His works can be found in public collections, including Académie française des Beaux-arts, France; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Cabinet des Arts Graphiques, Genève, Switzerland; Musée des beaux-arts de Clermont-Ferrand, France; and Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, France.