SLEEPING BEAUTEES

In his « Sleeping Beauties » series, Jean-François Rauzier treats the topic of sleep
as a doorway to mystery, dreams, and lyricism. The male character contemplates,
on the threshold of his own night, the young sleeping beauty being the symbol of
what is lost.

Inspired by Kawabata and Balthus, the symbolic universe proposed by the artist is an
attempt to solve contradictions which in reality would be without exit: the
presence/absence, love/death, the existing intimacy between artist and model and
the difference that separates them, the desire of youth and beauty and its
inaccessible nature.

Illusion and reality are closely bound here, and through the search of an ideal to be
reached, the work of Jean-François Rauzier is that of a man who probes the
incommensurable complexity of the heart – a dark search, but always triumphant
because it is so human.