Benoit Genest Rouillier

My painting practice began over 25 years ago from an intrinsic need to release a rebellious and undisciplined emotional charge. My approach questions society through powerful imagery and the turbulence of human beings torn between moments of struggle and peace.

In my work, I give a predominant place to the accident of gesture and to my critical judgment, which constantly unsettles the balance of elements and the harmony of colors.

Each canvas is eclectic and directly connected to my impulses; in essence, I become one with it, giving the inanimate a form of embodied life. I physically sculpt and shape color and pictorial material.

Through the formal expression of my painting—sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract—I seek to convey to the viewer the ambiguity and tension of what I call “my inner chaos.”