Thierry CARRIER (1973), "Untitled (Code 1508)", 2015, oil on canvas, diptych signed and dated on the back. 130 x 190 cm (per diptych panel) Note: Thierry Carrier was born in 1973. After a brief period at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he settled in Souillac, in the Lot region, and devoted himself entirely to painting. He has been exhibiting regularly for over twenty years in Paris, Lille, Lyon, Toulouse and Munich, and has also had numerous institutional exhibitions. His canvases are generally coded, often depicting improbable, even unreal scenes... His figures - men, women and children - seem suspended in a minimalist environment. His figures are imbued with realism, and while certain facial features are recognizable, the artist does not paint self-portraits, but seeks to free himself from attention to the physical characteristics of his subject. He focuses his attention on the motionless postures and neutral, absent or masked gazes of his figures, who exude a sense of mystery further amplified by the "blurred", quasi-abstract backgrounds. The painter directs our attention not to the physical aspect of the subject, but to the atmosphere of arrested time that permeates his canvases. It's a painting that's enigmatic, sensitive, profound and silent... Thierry Carrier talks about it in the following terms: "We find ourselves before different settings of a state, a world of silence, a stripped-down representation of Man, a being in suspense and unfathomable, a painting reflecting my own aspiration to silence."