This painting is also a redundant painting, but more in my work in general than in the exhibition in particular. What is beautiful to me in the fact of being young is the opening of the field of possibilities. Realizing choices, even the right ones, is already something completely different and less open. I often paint this character who, just before the choices that structure adulthood, is seized with vertigo. How to be gentle with such a violent world? How to participate in a collective fresco that is so lethal? The images on the wall create a kind of adolescent fiction, and the outside world, a troubled reality. A rock poster picks up a painting by Memling kept in Strasbourg, 1480. The painting made of semen sent by Marcel Duchamp (Paysage fautif) to Maria Martins faces a drawing made by her. A self-citation of the pink calf that we find in the exhibition. An Aphex Twin poster. The outside landscape relates a world in ruins and a dream pool. I wanted to paint concrete ruins but not a war landscape. For that, I used images of Hashima Island, a city built for mining and evacuated entirely by the Japanese government once the lode was exhausted.