Born in 1996 in Saint-Brieuc (France), Quentin Gouevic lives in Paris and studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (France).
Born and raised in a working-class environment, Quentin Gouevic left his industrial job in 2019 to study at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes St Nazaire, before entering the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. Here in the capital, his research focuses on the medium of painting, exploring trace, gesture and color in a profound desire to go ever further, to continually expand the limits of the pictorial field.
Above all, he creates a "painting of sensations", in which he is particularly interested in both his own and the viewer's immersion in spaces and fields of color. In the process, his paintings constantly change, until they incorporate trace, overlay, superimposition and erasure as so many ele- ments that enable him to construct his works. There are often apertures, breaches, windows: interstices of light.
His work as an artist is intrinsically linked to his sociology, and to his past working-class experiences. While painting he deploys his labor force and physically engages himself, almost performatively, throughout the whole process. His paintings are always realized without preconceived ideas and are progressively built up as layers are superposed over time. Shapes appear naturally and are then highlighted by rings and subtle washes of color. Experimentation and risk-taking are an essential part of his approach: they reflect his desire to go ever further in painting, provoking effects of surprise and new discoveries. The haptic dimension and sensory immersion inherent in the music he listens to, accompany him and join his research in its sensitive and radical aspects.
The artist was one of the resident of the first edition encore! residency in La Rochelle in 2023.