Cecile FRANCEUS

Cécile Franceus expresses herself in a gestural style that does not become an identifiable shape. The strokes vigorously applied to the paper are accompanied by the sound of a ball-point pen scratching on a table, the incessant repetition, and the insistent music that accompanies her gestures. For her, the creative process is more important than the result achieved; it is a medium of existence and the confirmation that she is indeed living. When a page has a hole in it, she slides a second sheet beneath it, tears and glues the paper until, for some unknown and unexplained reason, she stops working and decides that the work is finished. This cessation of work is guided by an inner voice and not by some external material contingencies, for even when her pen has run out of ink she continues to use it as a scraper! The mystery and the miracle of her gestural style reside in the existential message that they embody. Cécile Franceus created her work at the Zonnelied studio in Lennik (Belgium).