Life’s Driving Force — Psychic Conflict

Name: Life’s Driving Force — Psychic Conflict - Elise Nguyen Quoc
Brand: Keijiban
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Elise Nguyen Quoc

2025

Pigment on paper mounted on wood panel

59 x 115 x 2.5 cm

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The artist

Elise Nguyen Quoc was born in Trappes (France). She lives in New York.

For several years, Elise Nguyen Quoc has grounded her practice in what she refers to as “remnants”: traces of the everyday that she photographs and collects, until one of them becomes the starting point for a new work. From the flow of life, she selects an often imperceptible detail and enlarges it to the very limits of the image’s resolution. After digitally extracting the full range of tones it contains, she recreates them as pigments in order to compose the broadest and most nuanced palette possible, initiating a slow and meticulous process of transfer.

From these microscopic fragments of reality emerge works that frequently expand to the scale of monumental paintings. These are large compositions with a subtle, velvety range of colors, where the vibrant pictorial texture serves as a perfect substitute for the depths of the material source it seeks to reproduce. Through this shift in scale and medium—this continual movement between reality and its image—the work ultimately resides beyond the readable or the recognizable.

In a way, the artist places us in the position of the famous character from Antonioni’s Blow-Up, who continually enlarges the detail of a photograph taken in a park in order to uncover the mystery of a possible crime inadvertently captured. By endlessly probing the image to find a meaning applicable to reality, it is the image that becomes the only conceivable reality. Here, too, the pursuit of interpretation gracefully dissolves, leaving space for the sheer beauty of the gesture.

Her work is represented by Gratin (New York).

The exhibition