La Cage a L’Unisson 2020

Sandra Chevrier made this striking image in a collage style with oil paint, layering a classical portrait with comic book fragments. I love how the artist pulls these contrasting elements together, almost like a conversation between different realities. Just imagine her in the studio, carefully tearing and placing each piece, building up this layered surface! What’s she thinking as she’s doing this? Is she aiming for a specific narrative, or letting the materials lead the way? The way the comic book imagery collides with the realistic portrait creates a tension, almost like two worlds colliding. I’m reminded of other artists who sample and remix imagery to make something new – it’s like we’re all just borrowing and building upon each other’s ideas, creating an ongoing dialogue across time. In the end, painting is never really about certainty or closure, it's about staying open to those tensions and letting the unexpected emerge.