In his most recent work, Antoine Auboiron employs a
technique close to marquetry, where velvet fabric defines the surface of the
piece.
Clean, precise contours are filled with pure, unmixed colors, assembled edge
to edge across the surface.
While the process may appear static, the material introduces a subtle instability
shifting with the angle and ambient light, the velvet alternately reveals or
absorbs the pattern.
This shift away from oil painting marks a reconfiguration of the pictorial
process. The image is no longer built through layers or gesture, but
assembled through distinct fields of color and material.
Flatness is not asserted as a principle but tested, as the surface responds
unevenly to light, producing variations that remain dependent on
viewing conditions.
The compositions do not aim to describe or narrate.
They establish a state. Forms remain deliberately unstable, suspended
between abstraction and figuration, clarity and absorption. Nothing is fully
resolved. The surface becomes a site of quiet tension, where perception
hesitates and meaning remains open, continuously renegotiated by light and
movement.
The work unfolds slowly, revealing itself through prolonged looking rather than
immediate recognition.
Antoine Auboiron (b. 1990, Paris) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2015. His work has been shown in Paris and Shanghai, including at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Westbund Art & Design (2025), and in a solo exhibition at Galerie Zeto, Paris (2026). He lives and works between Paris and Shanghai.