Zoé BRUNET-JAILLY
Zoé Brunet-Jailly is a French artist born in 1991, who currently lives and works in Paris. She uses oil painting and computer-generated imagery, often in the manner of a portrait artist, to capture the complexity of memory and algorithmic creation. Her works are also influenced by the various atmospheres found on the internet, between popular culture and ancient myths. Her avatar, Ellie Hedden (who appeared in 2014), allows her to create her « Hyperdreams », reconstructed worlds populated by invented faces. Her works have notably been exhibited at the Refraction Festival at Miami Art Week and at the Jeune Création 69 fair.
R.P.G. Series
These three paintings are part of a series called R.P.G., an acronym used to designate a role-playing game where one embodies a character that can evolve throughout a quest. Here, in these paintings, we embody a variation of Mathilde, a friend who became a character, exploring a world populated by current myths and conspiracies. It turns out, by a happy coincidence, that her first name means « strength in battle ».
In Residual Phone Ghost, the clock indicates 4:10 in the morning, which is at the end of the time window called the "witching hour" (the hour of the devil or the hour of God depending on the school of thought). These moments have become the most conducive to the most powerful paranormal phenomena. On the phone, a series of #, one of the favorite numbers of the inhabitants of the afterlife (tied with the series of 9 and 8). And in the wall, a visitor.
Les lois de Roy
In this painting, Ellie opens a curtain slightly and looks at a scene. The curtain is not really colored, nor really lit. It's a curtain like an image of a curtain. She looks, in her memories, at a film scene. She looks through herself. It's an image, a projection of what the mental action of looking at a memory, of projecting oneself into a story, of looking inside a mental creation could be. Like imagining looking, seeing oneself looking at a memory, the memory of a film scene, a film scene that becomes the memory. The memory of a memory.
The scene is important because it contains in its essence but also because it does not show. Again, I think it's the result of a painting that escaped, that decided on its own.
