About
Like the classicist artists, Olivier Caron stages photorealistic characters in skilfully composed and lit interiors, creating an impression of the strange. These intriguing archetypes of an outdated social category move within timeless settings full of dystopian objects. These portraits question the notions of domination and enslavement, freedom and imprisonment.
Works
Unidentified Saint (I)
OLIVIER CARON
Unidentified Saint (I) is a saint from the future, who belongs to a world in which work is the only god. Its stigmata are
those of an unknown machine. In this piece, Olivier Caron explores the iconographic codes of Christian ideology.
Girl with Apple
The Old Guard
The Receptionist
GIRL WITH APPLE
OLIVIER CARON
"Girl With Apple" is part of a personal reflection on the plant kingdom and the relationship we have with it, materially and spiritually. Although common, the apple is also extremely symbolic as it is believed to represent the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, both knowledge and farewell to innocence. In this image, I wanted to represent this passage in a positive way, to show a woman not subject to a tyrannical God but in charge of her own destiny.