Jérémy Boulard Le Fur drowns you in a strange world where geological masses breathe, suspended between liquid and solid. His drawings hum with a grotesque intensity that leaves you unsure whether to feel intimidated or hypnotized.
Drawing Pöx: A wave keeps coming back in your work. What attracts you to it?
Jérémy Boulard Le Fur: As both a surfer and a drawer, I have always been fascinated by oddities, distorted shapes, and unpredictable movements. Certain waves, with their strangeness, move me at first sight, much like a dog with divergent strabismus: awkward yet profoundly touching. This deformation speaks to me, much like the movement of fur, hair, or coats: living forms, in constant motion, that naturally resonate with the rhythm of the waves.
In my other drawing series, I explore relationships between the human and animal worlds, often tinged with grotesque elements. With the waves, my gaze shifts toward nature itself: deformed masses, frozen in a state between liquid and solid. These vast expanses evoke the abyssal depths described by Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe in A Descent into the Maelström.
When working on my large-scale pieces, the repetition of the stroke, always in the direction of the current, becomes a physical act that draws me into a meditative trance-like state, similar to the experience of surfing.
The polychromy in my recent works also echoes the psychedelic imagery tied to surfing: multicolored reflections on the sea, water as a distorting mirror of the world, and the ever-changing skies of dawn or dusk. These elements contribute to an immersive, almost hallucinatory visual experience.
Beyond the cliché of the « pretty Hawaiian wave, » I aim to offer the viewer a hypnotic experience, a visual transport that transcends simple representation to touch on the intensity of the moment.
