Yann Lemieux explores the notions of strength and freedom through his art, embodying them through feminine figures with bold contours. Faces and silhouettes become the heart of a vibrant pictorial language, constructed from matter and movement. For him, these feminine presences act as powerful vectors of expression, both fluid and charged with tension.
His practice revolves around a visual layering in which forms overlap, intertwine, and interact. Using ultra-low-viscosity acrylic paint, he composes images in successive layers, where the visual interventions qualify the atmosphere and enrich the silent narrative of his figures.
Working on the edge of abstraction and figuration, Lemieux constructs a fragmented pictorial surface, traversed by spontaneous impulses and formal ruptures. He draws freely on the codes of street art while maintaining a connection with more classical principles of composition. This duality fuels a formal research that aims to refocus the discourse on the female figure, not as a passive subject, but as an active and meaningful entity.
For Yann Lemieux, painting becomes a field of exploration where content and form respond to each other, where each image is the result of a balance between structure and explosion, between technical mastery and liberated gesture.