Plaie ouverte (Open wound)

Title: Plaie ouverte (open wound)
Series: Embossed memories
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic paint, wood and modeling paste on canvas
Dimensions: 92 × 60 cm
Framing: Unframed, ready to hang
Type: One-of-a-kind artwork, signed and counter-signed at the back

“Open Wound” is an acrylic painting in which the raw material interacts with an inlaid piece of wood, covered in gold like an organ: a heart, or what remains of it. It appears broken, split, but never forsaken. Golden wires stitch it back together, like a fragile yet determined gesture, an act of intimate repair. Each suture tells of pain endured, each golden splinter a lesson learned. Here, the wound is not hidden: it is sublimated. This work embodies the idea that even what has been broken can become a source of beauty and strength.