Raphaël Terrier is a French artist who experiments with matter, mutation, repetition, through paintings, prints and photographs.

Through intense heat, the substrate awakens, it bubbles, solidifies, or stretches. This metamorphosis allows me to create organic textures like skin and scales or mineral textures like coral and volcanic rock.

Paint, slashed with a knife, becomes both a topography and a music sheet. It defines the arena, turns rhythm, and punches, into material things, through repeated traces. Straight, mechanical traces, or winding and irregular ones.

Resin, poured in large quantities, runs between the thick paint volumes and accumulates in crevasses. Over flat surfaces, it reflects and deforms our every move. Carefully placed, drop after drop, it fossilizes the moment.

The minimalistic color palette draws attention to the different textures repelling one another and invokes light as the play's director.

Those workpieces are open wounds and scars resulting from those fights. I share them with the viewer; their image will often get reflected, distorted over those pieces, sending them back to their own battles.