PÈRE-LACHAISEMONOCHROMATICS

These oil paintings depict weathered tomb sculptures from the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris: stone figures eroded by time, gradually losing detail, identity, authorship. What remains are silent presences — still human, but already slipping into abstraction. The monochromatic treatment reinforces this suspension of time. It removes anecdote and colour, and concentrates everything on form, matter and decay itself.

The paintings act as contemporary memento mori, yet without moral warning. Instead of drama, there is observation; instead of narrative, a slow archaeology of disappearance. The oil medium — traditionally used to give durability to image and memory — confronts the erosion of the real object. Painting becomes a counter-gesture to entropy: not to restore what is lost, but to register the fragile moment in between — when memory is still visible, but almost gone.