Manuel Dampeyroux

I was born in 1991 in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Currently living in Montpellier (France), I draw and paint in a singular way. I started creating when I was about 5.

I develop The notion of “silent” painting is an attempt to materialise silence through a medium that appeared during the XVth century. The aim is to develop a combination of aesthetic choices to generate a stagnating atmosphere where time seems frozen. It features a limited colour palette, contemporary ruins echoing a human’s mental space and lifeless objects such as automatons, dummies and wax models.

The combination of these different elements tends towards Freud's 1919 theory of “The uncanny”. Indeed silent painting is a structure created in order to account for the depth of the human soul. The uncanny, what is stranger to us, unfamiliar can also refer to what is hidden deep down inside. My work is somewhat similar to a human psyche autopsy – Silence as an acoustic status, silence as meditation, silence as pain. Painting as a means of expression, painting as a conviction, painting as a passion.