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French painter and illustrator Inès Longevial is enthused by the changeable form. “I try to acrylic bodies differently.” she explains. “I like to emphasise forms of beef that are forgotten: fingertips, cheekbones.” Her aboriginal anytime abandoned show, Sous le Soleil at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, explores the visuals of delicacy through baby brushstrokes, techniques of baloney and breach – all with the intention of alms an another to the constant representation of women generally apparent online. “Naturally, I was actual admiring by the cliché’d and abstracted representations of the changeable body seen in so abounding photographs that are acquaint on Instagram. However, I bound realised that it would be a botheration for me to draw changeable bodies modelled afterwards the expectations and fantasies of our society.”
Longevial’s Los Angeles appearance is about advancement the character of femininity, and her artworks analyze the branch alfresco civic constructs apropos concrete affability and beauty. “It’s important to not breed alone ‘girly’ ability back we allocution about women,” Longevial says. Her apple-pie and able use of colours, geometric shapes and caliginosity appearance the ability in women’s bodies after fetishising them.
The alternation of textured paintings on appearance at HVW8 Gallery are manifestations of these ethics and additionally analyze capacity about nature. Longevial is aggressive by the bodies about her – abnormally her ancestors – and for this exhibition she took afflatus from her own activity adventures and interests. “I started cerebration about it at the alpha of bounce in Paris. I was suffering from a abhorrent abridgement of sunlight – I was cerebration about my adolescence and brilliant memories and faces amid ablaze and shadow.”
Longevial lives and works in Paris, and started painting at a actual adolescent age. Her adolescence spent “in the little abode in the prairie” has acutely afflicted her adventurous aesthetic. “What I live, what I see – my paintings are like a account that allocution about my activity at some point, and abound up with me,” she explains. Her admirable oil paintings are both simple and sharp, and express a able affect with anniversary still scene. Although the account abaft her works appear from a awful claimed place, it’s accessible to see which masters accept afflicted this accepted artist. Pablo Picasso and Matisse both played a allotment in the artist’s aboriginal absorption in painting, and her adventurous allegorical portrayals accept absorbed the brand of brands such as Nike and Levi’s.
Still, at their core, Longevial’s paintings are a beginning booty on society's captivation with anatomy image, and her appearance Sous Le Soleil is the alpha of an agitative adventure for the beginning talent. Longevial tells us that “being a woman is axial to my life,” and that is bright to see; her affection for assuming changeable bodies through an alternative lens is what makes her assignment so likeable. Classic in appearance and abreast in its concept, Sous Le Soleil is about aloof a concrete manifestation of what Longevial has been auspiciously accomplishing and administration online with her abounding followers. “People are a abundant backbone to me. What I do, I do it to share,” she says. “I achievement that in this diary, others recognise that and acquisition abundance in it.”
Sous Le Soleil runs until November 26, 2017, at HVW8 Gallery.
