CONTACT

iannis.pledel@gmail.com

ABOUT

Iannis Pledel is a French painter whose work explores perception through moments of reversal, where what is perceived gives way to another, unnamed reality emerging within the image.

The human figure appears as a site of tension between presence and disappearance, coherence and dissolution, desire and ambivalence. Form remains suspended in unstable states, where the nuances of the flesh emerge — fragile and intense, luminous and at times darker.

This instability extends into urban environments, particularly Paris, where architecture, reflection, and movement generate shifting perceptual structures. Here, perception unfolds as a multiple and expansive field in constant reconfiguration. The city operates through counterpoints, where layered realities coexist within a single image.

Between body and city, intimate and inhabited spaces converge, where interior and exterior no longer function as opposites but as permeable conditions shaped by ambiguity and multiplicity.

Portraiture emerges from this intersection, where these dynamics concentrate into focused presence.

Across painting, Pledel works at the point where form begins to destabilize, sustaining this suspension without resolution.

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