Odalisque 3.0
huile sur toile, 100×150 cm Prix3000€ + envoi
When I first took my partner to sunbathe naked on this still “wild” beach, as it is covered by the sea in winter and therefore frequented by tranquility seekers, she would occasionally turn around to make sure no one was watching us. Her body and twisting movement reminded me of the Grande Odalisque. Like her, she twisted to see. Ingres hides her buttocks because she is the one looking. Here it’s not her, but a police drone observing: the 3.0 era is the digital age where nothing should escape the gaze of machines. Is this eye a controller or a voyeur? Spy or libertine? The repression of desire and its sublimation are societal questions. Beauty responds elsewhere, by offering itself to the gaze. No more, no less. Cops and intruders abstain. I quite like the modeling of the sand.