Odyssey

The very word carries the idea of journey or wandering. One must add the notion of motion, of a long-haul voyage. The odyssey is a movement whose destination is distant, undefined, even blurred. It is also an adventure imagined as singular, unique—because it is ultimate.

In this perspective, François Vautier discerns the imminence of danger, of a trial from which one cannot return unchanged. The journey is not without risk. In its very essence, it foretells a possible change—either formal or spiritual.

It is upon this transformation that the artist unfolds his work. There is a departure, an impulse, an arrival. And in the interstice between these temporalities, it is always metamorphosis that is sought.