rodolphe janssen

In an era saturated by the public staging of the self, this exhibition brings together a generation of artists who explore a non-spectacular intimacy: the private body, the fragile or self-assured nude, always held in tension between desire, narrative, vulnerability, and introspection.

The selected works do not merely depict bodies - they reveal states, mental atmospheres, traces of the self in space. This is an exhibition about interiority, muted emotion, the psychic and painterly nude.

This exhibition brings together a series of works that explore intimate, introspective, and nonheroic representations of the human body. Moving away from academic or overtly sexualized conventions, the artists present fragmented, vulnerable figures that invite a deeper psychological reading.

Across the exhibition, interior scenes unfold not as physical spaces, but as reflections of mental landscapes, private rooms shaped by memory, perception, and emotion. A sense of ambiguity runs throughout, particularly in the treatment of desire and sensuality, which appear diffuse, elusive, and at times almost spectral. At the same time, the materiality of painting itself takes on a bodily dimension. Paint becomes skin-like sensitive, visceral, and nearly tactile, blurring the boundaries between body and medium.