4:07 p.m. Painting

French-born Olivier Dubois-Cherrier is a visual artist who expresses himself through Land art, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. These last 20 years he has lived in diverse countries with a coastline, such as Guadeloupe (FWI), Barcelona (Spain), Dominican Republic, and Miami. He now lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, a desert place where water is rare. A counter-place could be said at first sight; but for the nomadic Caribbean crossed origins artist who learned how to place his roots in himself, settling his home in a wide and empty landscape was a necessity. He likes to think about the notion of the island in term of geopolitical space and of philosophic and psychological state. The natural limits of the island such as banks, horizons, oppositions and demarcations became for this artist metaphors of the incapacity for the modern man to live harmoniously. For O. Dubois-Cherrier who refuses any idea of environmental or genetic determinism, the full responsibility of the human being cannot be dissociated of his condition. Without judging, because aware of being part of it, the artist tries through his working process to understand the reasons of the contemporary nonsenses and mainly try to draw a new paradigm generating peace of mind and hope. It is finally to better accept the idea of his physical decline and his finiteness that he questions like a novice philosopher on the causes of the human disaster.