■ 30.5 ■ Tense Visual Laboratory
Project Introduction
■ 30.5 ■ is a structured and tense artistic setup.
A strict framework:
- 30.5 cm square format
- Restricted palette to reinforce visual unity
Within this constrained space, artists explore the limits of form and gesture.
Each work arises from the relationship between the format’s rigor and the freedom of movement.
Concept
The format provides the impulse. The work emerges from the gap.
No imposed theme, no narration, no explanation: only the visual act, immediate and contained.
Each piece manifests an internal dynamic: surfaces under tension, fractured trajectories.
The constraint acts as a catalyst: each energy is composed, orchestrated, never left to chance.
Vibrant lines, precarious balances, absorbed lights: here, brutality is shaped into visual grammar.
■ 30.5 ■ dialogues with Op Art, radical minimalism, and process art, in a direct approach: producing optical rhythm, capturing the density of a visual impulse.
Visitor Experience
■ 30.5 ■ imposes an overall dynamic.
The regular format punctuates the space: tight compositions, contained gaps, controlled visual breakthroughs.
The works are hung at variable intervals: aligned to create continuous rhythms, tightened to intensify optical vibration, spaced from 5 to 50 cm to modulate visual tension.
Each composition stretches the space.
The gaze accelerates, slows down, hesitates.
Time stretches with each step, suspended by the silent density of the works.
From a distance: fixed surfaces, contained lights.
Up close: vibrant materials, gestures suspended on the verge of overflow.
Each step reshapes the space; each gaze stretches an invisible thread in the architecture of the place.
The setup adapts equally well to neutral white spaces and refined industrial sites.
Method ■ 30.5 ■
■ 30.5 ■ is a visual compression protocol.
Each artist confronts the same rules: a single format of 30.5 × 30.5 cm, a restricted palette.
Works are created primarily on paper or canvas board, using pigment markers, acrylic, or graphite; media chosen to capture the gesture immediately, with no reworking or overlay.
Trace, drift, strike, suspend.
■ 30.5 ■ does not comment. It acts.
Artistes
Roderick Hendrick
Demonstrates a near-mathematical rigor, merging visual code and precision into harmonious structures.
Osbern d’Orvaux
Transforms the digital realm into creative impulses, navigating between algorithmic rigor and spontaneous expression.
Gérard Delafosse
Overlays layers of paint like opaque panes, reorganizing light into constructed depth.
Lubacha
Seeks the immediate precision of the line: one stroke, one breath, one gesture suspended in the clarity of emptiness.
Josef Haring
Builds restrained, sober abstractions where each surface becomes a site of balance between absence and presence.
Julien Madouas
Plays with the dissolution of Normandy landscapes through a fluid and contrasted reinterpretation of shanshui painting.
Franky Turbo
Draws instinctively like a punch: urgency, flash, fragments of daily life thrown without backdrop.
Zing Sou
Weaves fragmented visual narratives, where symbols from ancient tales confront the dynamics of our time.
Jeffrey Lubow
Lets gesture guide form in an unstable cartography of retakes, erasures, and formal tensions.
Akiren Mazuki
Fixes the ephemeral in tense compositions, where breath, silence, and graphics respond to each other without ever settling.
Works
Each ■ 30.5 ■ series extracts a moment of constructed compression: a suspended impact, a contained visual shock, a light passing through.
Variable depending on the venue and exhibition. Between 20 and 200 pieces may be displayed, depending on the number of artists and spatial constraints.
Why 30.5?
■ 30.5 ■: Vinyl format. Reduced gesture. Maximum impact.
A unique format, a minimal range, a controlled plastic density.
No imposed interpretation: see, feel, pass through.
Each series searches. Each work strikes.