Art Paris 2024 - Gilles Barbier

Barbier is showing a new series of works entitled Naufrages. Drawing his inspiration from Homer’s Odyssey, that epic journey of initiation, the artist depicts the instability and social and political shipwrecks of our contemporary world. Nature is a burning cause dear to the artist’s heart and central to this series, which features, as a kind of figurehead, an immense beached whale, five metres long. Once again, we see nature through Barbier’s eyes – both breathtaking and desperately vulnerable.