Louis Salkind is a French contemporary painter born in 1982 who raises questions about the unconscious and non-thought paths of our times through a series of allegories tinted with amusement or melancholy, and fundamentally political. Based on the principle that pictures are a constituent of thought, the artist seeks to free himself…read more

Louis Salkind is a French contemporary painter born in 1982 who raises questions about the unconscious and non-thought paths of our times through a series of allegories tinted with amusement or melancholy, and fundamentally political. Based on the principle that pictures are a constituent of thought, the artist seeks to free himself.​..read more

This series originates from pictures that came from dreams. I painted these visions and arranged them in a fresco of bodies, a silent opera in which the subjects are displayed bare, out of space and time. Lost in a transformed daily life… read more

It is through the mythical dimension – its sprawling subjectivity modes – that I have decided to take a stroll in the undergrowth to „dig up a few dead people», meet the savages, drink from the spring and on the stump of a sacred tree freshly cut, revealing its naked palm, I learn to read between the lines . There I discover the history of this magic tree, endemic to human nature, which as soon as it has been cut, just grows back again. Rising from its ashes, surviving the thuds… read more

Through this new series I progressed towards shapeless forms, a land where we can hardly distinguish the self from the other. What is this? What is that thing looking at us with two eyes too many….read more

This series was realized between Act 1 and Act 2 f my “Floating Presences”. It came through with the idea of unfolding space and time at a time when slogans seem to be division and immediacy. To do this, I looked at the concept of representation that seems to me as a crossroads between real, imaginary and symbolic. Certain representations that one could…read more

This series was realized between Act 1 and Act 2 f my “Floating Presences”. It came through with the idea of unfolding space and time at a time when slogans seem to be division and immediacy. To do this, I looked at the concept of representation that seems to me as a crossroads between real, imaginary and symbolic. Certain representations that one could…read more