Philippe Cognée counts as one of the most well known French painters today. Over the last fifteen years, he has been developing a unique oeuvre inspired by the most mundane aspects of reality. Using video and photography, he documents everyday life – crowds, libraries, supermarkets, skyscrapers – which serves as an inspiration for his strangely blurred, fading images on canvas. Mixing his pigments with wax, he melts the surface of the paintings with an iron, giving them a skin-like smoothness. Through these smudged, blurred, distorted views of the world, Philippe Cognée questions our modern condition as well as the nature of gaze and memory
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