Deplazes’s imagery is lush and vibrant yet never purely idyllic. His use of intense, sometimes fluorescent colour and his soft, fluid brushwork lend his works a charged atmosphere, beautiful but uneasy. The figures in his paintings, often androgynous or ambiguous, seem to merge with their surroundings, suggesting the fragility of boundaries between body, environment, and emotion.
Drawing on both art historical references and contemporary concerns, Deplazes updates the tradition of landscape painting for the present moment. His worlds are alive with tension between intimacy and distance, humanity and wilderness, vulnerability and power. Through these painterly fictions he asks how we live with and within nature today.
