WINNER CARRÉ SUR SEINE 2023

The Carré sur Seine 2022 Prize was awarded to Bryce Delplanque "for her profound quest for self-understanding through art, which translates into an uncompromising exploration of painting. For his bold work that questions our habitual perception of objects, revealing their origin and uniqueness often overshadowed by our everyday use. ".

Bryce Delplanque - Bryce Delplanque's work explores figurative pictorial vocabulary, focusing on notions of image reproduction and appropriation. As a painter, he considers images to be his primary medium. Painting enables him to understand what he is looking at and what it means. The mechanics of looking at things interests him above all when it leads to a de-hierarchization of genres. Of the cultural object and the popular object. His paintings, though varied in form and technique, testify to a pleasure in the order of things. He seeks to reappropriate the image of the outside world by creating copies, but without adhering strictly to them.

Bryce Delplanque was born in xxxx in xxxxxxxx. A graduate of Villa Arson in 2020, he lives and works in Paris. In April, his first solo show in Paris will open at Atelier PGR, followed by an exhibition at Chapelle XIV in May. In March 2023, he exhibited in duo with Nils Vandevenne at Poush, as part of the exhibition "Sous sur Face", curated by Anne-Laure Peressin. Similarly, in 2021, he presented his work at Villa Arson as part of the exhibition "Construire sa prétendue", curated by Marie de Gaulejac.

A garden square
- finalist exhibition of the Carré sur Seine 2023 Prize, from March 14 to April 27, 2024 -

Bryce Delplanque questions the way we look at objects, and how words can end up replacing them in our perception.
Bryce reappropriates images of the outside world and their signifiers. In this way, their surface evokes a dimension beyond where fiction and reality merge. He offers us a pictorial and sculptural experience that is both immediate and intriguing.