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Zoé Brunet-Jailly

Zoé Brunet-Jailly is a French artist born in 1991, now living and working in Paris. She uses oil paint and computer-generated imagery, most often in the manner of a portrait painter, to capture the complexity of memory and algorithmic creation. Her works are also tinged by the different moods found on the Internet, between popular culture and ancient myths. Her avatar, Ellie Hedden (who appeared in 2014), enables her to create her "Hyperdreams", reconstructed worlds populated by invented faces. Her work has been exhibited at the Refraction Festival, Miami Art Week and Jeune Création 69.

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 in which you embody a character who can evolve over the course of a quest. Here, in these paintings, we embody a variation of Mathilde, friend turned character, exploring a world populated by current myths and conspiracies. As chance would have it, her first name means "strength in battle".

In Residual Phone Ghost, the clock reads 4:10 a.m., which is at the end of the window of time known as the "witching hour". These times have become the most propitious for the most powerful paranormal phenomena. On the telephone, a string of #'s, one of the favorite numbers of the inhabitants of the afterlife (on a par with the strings of 9's and 8's). And in the wall, a visitor.

Roy's laws

In this painting, Ellie opens a curtain and looks at a scene. The curtain is not really colored, not really lit. It's a curtain as in a picture of a curtain. She is looking, in her memories, at a scene from a film. She's looking through herself. It's an image, a projection of what the mental action of looking at a memory, projecting oneself into a story, looking inside a mental creation might be. Like imagining oneself 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 doesn't show. Once again, I think it's the result of a painting that has escaped, that has decided on its own.

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