觀 (Guān) : La Vue Perçante
Guān: The Piercing View
Guān is the word for contemplation in the Yi Jing, where the witness stands apart.
He watches himself and the constants of life, without judgment.
Read in another tone, the same character names the watchtower.
Looking far takes a tower.
Yet an orphan inherits no view and builds one.
Building sharpens the eye.
The artist inherited none, and this collection raises its tower on him first.
Each figure is a floor of it, and each floor sees farther than the one below.
The piercing view passes through appearances to the structure of a life.
Collection Statement
A self-portrait needs a face, or its absence.
It also needs enough stillness for looking to do its work naked.
Here, anyone who stays long enough finds their own.
Nobody chooses a body, a family or a culture.
Together they are the algorithm a life arrives with.
A life can accept that algorithm or take the reins.
The artist faces that choice for himself.
For anyone who looks, the collection leaves it open.
The figures are forces.
Each one is an imprint of light, computed and fixed in print.
No mirror appears here, no animation, no durational device.
What remains is one image and the time the viewer chooses to give it.
The restraint is a position taken.
Artistic Intention
The artist looks for what weight, limit and loss make of a life.
He builds each figure in three dimensions, with rule and calculation.
He sets the direction of each gaze and the plane of focus.
Here, a gaze is a pointer.
What it points to lies beyond the frame: beyond bodies and appearances.
The direction tells the inclination of the one who holds the gaze.
The viewer follows the pointer and ventures where the senses stop.
Le Doigt, le Sage et la Lune, 2026
The Finger, the Sage, and the Moon
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-01
Price on request
The blind are those who keep their eyes open.
Between gesture and revelation, the hand becomes a symbol of intention. Transformation, and hidden knowledge.
Carrying echoes of memory, and inherited narratives.
Here, the artist is the finger.
In 3D, every frame is a fragile boundary between what is revealed and what remains unseen.
The artist invites each viewer to explore beyond the frame, the images, the physical world and the senses.
The moon is there. A finger succeeds when the eye leaves it.
Géométries de l’Invisible, 2026 (autoportrait)
Geometries of the Invisible (self-portrait)
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-02
Price on request
An interruption is a passage seen too briefly.
This work defines contemplation is the silent inner alchemy that transmutes experience into meaning.
Here, contemplation is the silent inner alchemy. It transmutes experience into meaning.
Life is a crystal. Each rupture is one spot on the plate.
Looked at long enough, the spots reveal the structure that shaped them: the geometry of the invisible.
Meaning is a life seen whole.
孤 (Gū), 2026 (autoportrait)
The Orphan (self-portrait)
120 × 150 cm / 47.2 × 59.1 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-03
Price on request
Whoever looks up has no time to look sideways.
The Dao De Jing is a Chinese classic traditionally ascribed to Laozi.
Its thirty-ninth chapter says that what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness from which it rises.
It adds that princes and kings call themselves orphans.
Contemplation makes a poor birth the foundation of a life that rises.
The orphan has no inheritance to defend.
The children born rich have no hold on his gaze.
Height is a direction before it is a place.
層 (Céng), 2026
Layer
122 × 179 cm / 48.0 × 70.5 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
30 × 44 cm / 11.8 × 17.3 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-04
Price on request
Every layer was once the surface.
In this work, contemplation is the gradual rise of a life, layer upon layer.
Each stage widens the view and covers the one before. Depth is made of old surfaces.
The quintessence is the one layer that has always been depth.
Athanor Intérieur, 2026 (autoportrait)
Self-Athanor (self-portrait)
122 × 154 cm / 48.0 × 60.6 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50.5 cm / 15.7 × 19.9 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-05
Price on request
The furnace is given. The fire is kept.
This work defines the self is the furnace given at birth, the first separation from the chaos.
Destiny is the weight of experience placed in it.
Alchemical Responsibility is to keep the fire until the weight becomes substance.
The fire is an inner intelligence that listens to the language of existence. Acceptance lights the fire.
觀 (Guān), 2026 (autoportrait)
Contemplation (self-portrait)
216 × 122 cm / 85.0 × 48.0 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
64 × 36.1 cm / 25.2 × 14.2 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-06
Price on request
No one looks from outside.
The mythical Fuxi contemplated the sky, the earth and, near at hand, his own person.
Here, the human being is made of the universe it observes.
It is a vessel of experience, memory and consciousness. Silence and presence turn observation into communion.
Contemplation, in its highest form, is prayer, a participation in the universe.
Creuset, 2026 (autoportrait)
Crucible (self-portrait)
122 × 153 cm / 48.0 × 60.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50.2 cm / 15.7 × 19.8 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-07
Price on request
Change needs a vessel that holds.
This work views the human being is a living crucible where body, spirit and essence align.
It is both the matter and the vessel of its own becoming.
Les yeux, sexe de l’Esprit, 2026 (autoportrait)
The Eyes, the Sex of the Spirit (self-portrait)
122 × 153 cm / 48.0 × 60.2 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50.1 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-08
Price on request
Every limit is a door.
The Chinese Dao De Jing, translated by James Legge in 1891, uses guān, “to observe”, in two parallel lines.
Without desire, one sees the mystery. With desire, one sees its outer fringe.
It places “the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful” where the mystery is deepest.
This work regards the mortal as the vessel through which the immortal discovers the depth of experience.
Limitation, separation, love and loss are the doors to that depth.
What the mortal calls a miracle is the infinite meeting a limit.
Ce que le mortel appelle miracle, 2026
What Mortals Call a Miracle
240 × 101 cm / 94.5 × 39.8 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
71 × 30 cm / 28.0 × 11.8 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-09
Price on request
To see is to join.
The eye sends attention out and takes light in.
Where attention and light meet, the Spirit reaches the world, and the world reaches the Spirit.
So every look is a union. The seen is changed, and so is the one who sees.
A look begets what no one handed down.
Le Luxe du Silence, 2026
The Luxury of Silence
217 × 122 cm / 85.4 × 48.0 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
64 × 36 cm / 25.2 × 14.2 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-10
Price on request
The richest room is the empty one.
Existence is a purification. Loss and tragedy empty a life of its noise.
Before silence, an actor knows only his part. In silence, he hears the whole play.
Luxury is to hear what was always sounding.
L'Épreuve, 2026 (autoportrait)
The Ordeal (self-portrait)
122 × 152 cm / 48.0 × 59.8 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-11
Price on request
Only the bearer knows the weight.
The darkest night forces a life to question itself and correct its course.
Then the scale begins again from the load already carried.
Each new burden is measured from there.
In every life, the heaviest ordeal weighs the same.
Le vide, jeûne de l’esprit, 2026 (autoportrait)
Emptiness, Fasting of the Spirit (self-portrait)
240 × 82 cm / 94.5 × 32.3 in
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
73 × 25 cm / 28.7 × 9.8 in
Edition of 9 + 2 AP
Digital chromogenic print, laminated with matte film, mounted on aluminium composite panel
Includes embedded NFC chip linked to a digital certificate of authenticity
The certificate records the BAT, the colour reference approved and signed by the artist before printing
Signed and numbered
Reference GP-000-12
Price on request
A full mind tastes nothing.
Thoughts, images and opinions feed the mind all day. The fast begins when the feeding stops.
Emptiness is a discipline, built one refusal at a time.
Then hunger sharpens attention, and one quiet thought tastes like bread.
A mind that fasts sees what appetite hides.