Odile Ferron-Verron’s artistic universe is made up of containers, construction equipment, wastelands and maritime beacons, offering visitors a veritable plunge into color.
“For a long time, I’ve been drawn to landscapes of wasteland and disused industrial zones, where nature reclaims its rights over a civilization that is gradually fading away.”
Her resting machines, motionless and relieved of any human presence, stand out in her paintings like medieval icons, where gold is replaced by an immaterial blue sky.
Full frame, full center, she paints enormous machines, left in the wild, abandoned or neatly arranged. Caught up in a process of strangeness, they become veritable objects of meditation. For the artist, these machines are a metaphor for the human being. They are as vulnerable as a being made of flesh and blood, despite their sometimes titanic appearance. On his canvases, they seem sometimes lost in a landscape too big for them, sometimes constricted by the limits of the frame. At times, they become unidentifiable motifs, almost leading to introspection. The pure colors of her paintings create a frozen, fascinating beauty that focuses the viewer’s gaze and is Odile Ferron-Verron’s signature.
