CONTACT

iannis.pledel@gmail.com

ABOUT

Iannis Pledel (born in 1981 in Nantes) lives and works between Paris and Saint-Malo.

Through painting, he explores the coexistence of multiple realities within a single image. His work focuses on the ambiguities that inhabit places and human relationships, and on moments of reversal when these hidden tensions become perceptible.

The world is constantly transformed; his painting focuses on what endures beneath these changes. This underlying continuity emerges in moments of reversal, when the visible gives access to what usually escapes perception. Beings and places appear with a heightened sense of presence. It is in this revelation that his painting finds its necessity.

This approach unfolds through two complementary bodies of work.

The Day Paintings explore the multiplicity of space through the city, particularly Paris, where interior and exterior intertwine through reflections, transparencies, and light.

The Night Paintings extend this exploration towards human beings and their relationships. The body and the flesh become sites of the ambivalence of human passions, where expressions and gestures reveal inner forces, at times luminous and at times darker, that have always shaped human experience.

Portraiture extends these two approaches: sometimes inseparable from their environment, sometimes focused on the intensity of a gaze and an intimate presence.

PRACTICE