La Cage et la larme du peintre 2019

Sandra Chevrier made “La Cage et la larme du peintre” – or, "The Cage and the Painter's Tear". Imagine her studio, filled with comic books. It's as if she’s picked up these vibrant, action-packed narratives and pressed them, collage-like, onto the face of her subject. I wonder, did she begin with the face or the comics? Perhaps a bit of both, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition! Look at the eyes. There’s a softness, a vulnerability that peeks through the bold colours and fragmented panels. The comic book fragments seem torn between a world of heroism and an admission of sorrow. I sympathize with Chevrier. The physicality of the medium is so apparent in the artwork. You can almost feel the texture of the paper and the slickness of the paint. The artist’s hand seems to be constantly asking: How do we make sense of the world around us?