Displayed on a Wall

by Emeline Renard

"My work moves between intimacy and displacement, using bold color fields and simplified forms to hold lives that are often overlooked. I paint scenes of rest, desire, and waiting, where bodies, beds, and horizons become fragile shelters. Saturated palettes echo protest banners and sacred icons, turning everyday gestures into quiet declarations of existence. Years of working alongside marginalized communities inform my practice: each piece is an act of witness, shaped by stories of precarity, resilience, and care. I am interested in how love and exhaustion, tenderness and fear can coexist in the same room, the same body, the same image."