Jean-Charles Blais, septembre 1996-juillet 1997
Élisabeth Aubert Schlumberger
1997 - 29 min - France

Filmed in his workshop, galleries in Paris or Lisbon, or in the fabric shops looking for the best material, Jean-Charles Blais comments on the technical processes and the processes of composition that make his conceptual work.
Painter and designer, he paints or shapes human figures that are not people, but forms, imprints.
For material he prefers the back of big-size posters that have been torn down, as well as printed canvas or packing boxes. His first works, hypertrophied figures drawn with thick black contours, in reference to Malevitch's pictures, still had a part of narration.
In the mid 1980s, he painted wide bodies with no volume, and big black faces with no identity, in the form of wide profiled monochrome flat tints. Now, he makes "clothes" that he sews on walls : these montages reveal, without representing it, the form of the body that would fill them. Annick Spay.