Painting the encounter, registering the living in contemporary art
Lise Vurpillot is fully committed to a contemporary artistic approach. She belongs to this generation of artists for whom art can no longer be detached from the living world, and who strongly question how we relate to what surrounds us. For her, painting becomes a space for dialogue between species, a place where emotion takes precedence over explanation, and where the gaze gives back all its place to wonder.
His work is not limited to representing the animal.
He seeks to recreate an experience, a moment of silent tension, of intimacy between two forms of consciousness.
What interests him is not the perfect image, but the real, lived moment that precedes the work. The animal is therefore not a “remote” subject but a co-present, a being with whom it is a question of dealing — in every sense of the word.
A painting situated, embodied, committed
Far from a studio closed in on itself, Lise's painting is born from outside:
in the forest, on the steppe, in the snow, on the banks of a river, with healers or naturalists. This field practice, this physical immersion, echoes contemporary approaches such as that of artist-walkers, artist-researchers or those who work in ecological residences.
It is thus part of an aesthetic of slowness, of movement, of the construction of encounter — contrary to the digital flow of animal images that are often detached from any lived reality.
Between naturalism and expressionism: a fruitful tension
Lise Vurpillot claims double loyalty:
● To the truth of life: each posture, each look, each muscular tension is observed with precision, as a tribute to reality.
● To the subjectivity of emotion: the flamboyant colors, the vibrant contrasts, the open compositions reveal the part of the invisible contained in the visible.
This double anchoring places his work in a form of plastic hybridity, characteristic of contemporary research: painting becomes at the same time trace, sensation, memory, and a gesture of connection.
A living art, for a changing world
Lise Vurpillot joins the major current questions in art:
● How to represent what is disappearing?
● How do you create without dominating?
● How do you convey an emotion without speech?
She responds with a painting of the link, an art of “between”: between species, between looks, between knowledge and intuition. His work thus joins the most current research on the ecology of attention, the ethics of encounter, and the place of the non-human in artistic creation.
