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Florent Carayon explores a painting of movement, fluidity, and memory. His work seeks not to depict the visible, but what remains: the echo of a moment, the trace of a passage, the vibration of an ancient time. His pictorial gesture unfolds within a subtle tension between emergence and disappearance, between construction and erasure.

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Deeply inspired by the cosmos, fluid dynamics, cycles of transformation, fractal and organic forms, cellular biology, and tribal art, he develops an intuitive and experimental form of painting. Using Chinese ink, pure pigments, sand, raw materials, and chemical alterations, he creates a vibrant and sensitive interplay between matter and energy.

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Movement, in all its forms, lies at the core of his practice: the natural flow of water, air, light, or plasma becomes an active principle of composition. Alchemy, chemical alterations, and fluid interactions generate forms that evoke the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

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His work is deeply connected to the writing of studio notebooks, which combine visual experimentation, technical documentation, philosophical reflections, and close observation of the living world. These notebooks form a living foundation for his research, where intuition and thought constantly inform each other.

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Archaic forms, circular motifs, altered textures, and the interplay of emptiness and fullness shape a visual language rooted in both poetic and collective memory. Each artwork becomes a fragment of an unwritten story, a space for inner perception and contemplation.

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Born in the south of France, Florent Carayon now lives and works in Paris. He trained under French artist Cécile Martin-Guirkinger before forging his own artistic path. His current series, Rémanence, continues this exploration of time and matter, turning each painting into a meditative landscape and a trace of the unseen.