Untitled painting

The concept of the specter seems essential to understanding Julien Heintz's work. The specter, at once an evanescent apparition, an indexical form, and a link between different temporalities, invites the viewer to decode in Heintz's canvases what forms a face, whose features are both singular and universal. These faces, painted in close-up, appear frozen in space-time. Their features seem on the verge of disappearing, absorbed by the canvas.