Noiret-Thomé Xavier

• Born in 1971, Charleville-Mézières, France
• Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Xavier Noiret-Thomé’s pictorial universe unfolds as a space of telescoping influences and temporalities, where painting exists simultaneously as archive and metamorphosis. He draws freely from art history as well as popular culture, eschewing purism to claim painting in all its grandeur and its delicious impurity. His canvases orchestrate tensions between tradition and collapse, form and dissonance, continuity and rupture. Motifs glide from one to another, refusing narrative linearity, while abstraction and figuration, iconophilia and iconoclasm intertwine. Oils, lacquers, sprays, mirrors, and found objects form a living pictorial field, a place where painting becomes question, memory, and continuous tension.