COURT OF MIRACLES

Noe Borst

Painting - HUILE SUR TOILE / OIL ON CANVAS

145x215 CM x cm

In the series “Court of Miracles” Each character amalgamates with the others, influencing the mood of the crowd through the contagion of feelings. “Cour des Miracles” “Court of Miracles” is a French expression designating a group of places in Paris that used to shelter beggars, vagabonds, bandits and outcasts in the XVIIth century. Places that were deemed sordid and dodgy, They enjoyed the right of asylum and were forbidden to police. “It was like a new world, unknown, unheard of, deformed, reptilian, swarming, fantastic. » Victor Hugo Today this expression is still used in the French language to designate a place occupied by persons living on the fringe. In every big city I have been in I always came across a “court of miracles”. A parallel world where wandering entities evolve in an eerie atmosphere. The creation of each painting is done by the tracing of a continuous line, each delimited space becomes then a colorful mass allowing to create layers of transparency.