Stéphane Peltier

Trained in the 80s, Stéphane Peltier studied plastic arts at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He continued this training until obtaining a doctorate and an aggregation. It was at the time of the "return to painting": Stéphane Peltier has remained faithful to this medium, even if he also practices video, installation, engraving, and documentary filmmaking. Initially little concerned about promoting his work, he has never stopped painting and traveling, spending several years in the Indian Ocean. Back in the mainland, enriched by these experiences and the otherness of the worlds he has encountered, his painting is organized into series that all consider these simple questions: what is a place, what is wandering, and the imaginary that inhabits the one who departs; the one who returns? To explore this, he delves into both the literary imagination of Oscar Wilde and the study of medieval portolans or the decor of classical painting. His research now focuses on a painting that oscillates between welcoming decorative seduction and the unease of a world that seems to leave you on the margins, at the threshold. Somewhere, he says, "between Paul and Virginia and Little Thumb." The exhibitions of his work require a staging that incorporates a sound space that he has also created and arranged, of which a preview can be seen on his personal website.