THE SIGNS

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Standing up, they are posing in front of the artist. Gestures, taken from the universal sign language, are feeding a vocabulary of economic insecurity and aimlessness : poverty, isolation, welfare, etc…

 

These people, jobless and concerned by exclusion risk, have been requested by the artist to express the silence of their troubles.

 

By providing a passionate interest to the more humble people, the painting of hobos and jobless is close to the middle age icons in a more modern hieratic approach such as the trampled Christ from Fra Angelico.

 

Beneath these still gesture characters lie a deeply urgent situation.