Simon Demeuter
A gesture for tomorrow
A Gesture for Tomorrow
If our civilization were to disappear, what would remain of us? Like the frescoes of Pompeii, rediscovered centuries later, these works would be fragments of a vanished world, traces of forgotten loves, censored and erased from collective memory. They are remnants of intimacy: bodies, kisses, caresses. Love stories between men.
Aesthetically, these works borrow from the style of damaged frescoes. Parts of the bodies, faces, hands, seem to have vanished, worn away by time. And yet, traces of those loves endure. You can feel them in the gestures, in the fragments. I wanted to imagine a lost world in which these fragments of love stories had been buried, forgotten, and then rediscovered.
These paintings exist to affirm a presence, an existence, a resistance. To remind us that what is censored always says something about what we refuse to see, and about those we try to silence. They are here to remind us that everything can disappear.