Florian Gerbaud

The Pedestals

The impulse that led to the creation of these drawings derives from the hope of establishing a clear vision of the world and its existence. But in searching to define these lines and horizons, one is bound to trip-up on the limits of perception.

Thus caught between the urge to define and the inevitability of failure, the object of these drawings is rather to aim at a point that lies somewhere in between, where the image invokes what cannot be completely grasped. Thus each drawing is like a pedestal on which one may precariously stand in order to grasp at something that lies just beyond oneÕs reach.

Hence, one is confronted with the paradox of the tangibly unknown. Subject to the immensity of the world - there is yet a tendency to insist on the possibility of containing the uncontainable in one image, in one swoop, the whole solemn and absurd experience of the human mechanism.