Painting means embracing the uncertainty of matter

Par Murielle Bozzia

« I joined DF Art Project because I found in it a kind of rigor that deeply resonates with me: the desire to create not decorative images, but an authentic artistic inquiry. DF values commitment, reflection, and discipline — values that align closely with my own practice, which is rooted in experience, uncertainty, and transformation. I do not seek to illustrate an idea, but to move through an experience.

My approach, which I describe as sensualist, seeks to suspend the mind in order to allow a more immediate presence to reality to emerge. For me, painting means embracing the uncertainty of matter, allowing the composition to arise from lived experience rather than from a concept. In this sense, my work resonates with the spirit of DF: accepting phases of instability in order to recompose from a broader point of view.

My work explores states of transformation. The figure appears within it in tension or in the process of recomposition, while the material itself — erasures, overlays, accidents — conveys transitions and thresholds. The motifs are only points of departure from which to explore the relationship between the visible and the invisible, tension and suppleness, movement and balance.

I do not seek to direct interpretation; rather, I would like the viewer to enter the work as one enters a space of experience, a place of resonance and a slowing of the gaze. More than a message, I hope to offer a moment of presence to oneself and to the world.

Today, I continue this exploration of painting as a direct experience, in dialogue with the sensitive needs of our time. This reflection also extends into my book The Necessity of Art, which explores the sensory realm and collective memory, and accompanies the thought at the origin of my practice.»

« Ani Muller