La Tristesse du roi The Sorrow of the King
2020 · Oil on canvas · 195 × 130 cm
Begun during lockdown, this series approaches melancholy as an all-encompassing, literary and poetic feeling. It is a blur between sleep and waking. This is not depression, that malady of the century, but the malady of every century: the age-old dejection of humanity, from Gilgamesh to Kirsten Dunst.