Louis Vairel

After studying art at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design in Reims, Louis Vairel designs and creates objects, lighting, and furniture in his Toulouse workshop before dedicating himself to acrylic painting and figurative digital and handwritten illustration in January 2020. After drawing, painting offered him an additional dimension, allowing him to create scenes where these ghostly animals evolve and become "Chimeras" through the power of the series. These paintings contribute to the construction of a world where the Animal has its place, more than anything else.

CHIMERAS Series: Louis Vairel paints the animal. This animal that we only encounter through images. This animal that we no longer know and that we consider so different from us. He stages it in such a way that it invades the space. Its exaggerated size makes it unavoidable to our gaze, especially in a domestic and familiar space. The reading of the painting is disturbed, the chimera becomes an anomaly. This series of paintings illustrates the relationship between an unknown wild world and our daily life, amplified by an unmistakable scale contrast.

ANCESTORS Series: Alongside the "Chimeras," this new series focuses on the skull object. It offers a more "unpleasant" vision of an often-familiar animal. Resting on the remnants of its ancestor, the animal testifies to its fragility. It is the reflection of a vulnerable world, of a silent life.