Biography
Eleonore Pironneau approaches painting in a spirit of experimentation. The work is not the manifestation of a pre-existing thought because, here, the process manifests the thought. Pironneau invents her own techniques without looking for virtuosity. What she seeks is the meeting of technique and idea so that the work emerges from the poetic relationship between the process and the meaning it reveals.
The notion of revelation pervades her work on both technical and symbolic levels. Her work methods allow her to uncover, to unveil each form, which emerges through the creation of an interplay of shadow and light, of transparence and opacity.
It is probably this choice of techniques, balancing control and absence of control, which enrich the semantic interpretation, alluding to several possible but interchangeable referents. The interpretation does not lead to a message, but to an ambiguity.
Ambiguity is present also between these paintings and photography. The use in recent works of silver metallic pigments on black painted paper accentuates the confusion. But unlike a photograph, these paintings offer no promise of a reality. Rather, they point to a language in which signs have broken free from their reference to the real but are still heavily connoted: unattached signs which can mislead a mind left to its own projections.
The work, thus eluding the solidity of an interpretation, encourages us to renounce labels. It invites us to pay close attention to the release of the idea it holds, beyond language, in a silence where surface and depth have the same value.
