CAROLINE VICQUENAULT
A poetry of recovery
Title taken from the text by Jean-Marc Réol. See here
I don't paint a picture of pure resistance, nor of pathos. I construct a poetry from shock, loss, and tumult.
but also from softer things, familiar landscapes, my animals, the things I love, the things that
I observe.
What I propose in my paintings is not a direct response, but a return to the world through art, an attempt to
to give form – and therefore meaning – to what is dislocated.
It is not a painting that reassures. It is a painting that says "This is what I saw", "This is what I felt". A painting
which asks the question of how to hold on, how to love, how to weather the storm. And which answers, in its own way, without
ready-made answer, but with poetry.


