KA ORA
Hommage à la culture ancestrale de la Nouvelle Zélande.
Portrait enrichi de motifs traditionnels maoris : Art tribal, coutumes et légendes Néo zé-
landaises.
about this artwork
(I am alive) New Zealand. This canvas pays tribute to New Zealand’s ancestral culture. Through this portrait,
the artist celebrates maori life, memory and traditions, transforming the human face into
a true cultural and symbolic territory.
The picture is enriched with traditional Maori motifs and tribal symbolisms that intersect
harmoniously lacent: tiki, koru, matau hei, toki, and performances
these stylized human figures that tell history and genealogy. These reasons
evoke tribal art and ancestral customs, giving the portrait a ritual depth
and spiritual.
Around the face, the spectator discovers references to legends and embossed landscapes
new Zealand: haka, warrior and ceremonial expression, Moeraki
Boulders, the spectacular Milford Sound, and marine and terrestrial animals — turtle,
shark, ray, dolphin, gecko — which recall the intimate connection between man and nature. The flower
of tiaré adds a delicate and poetic note, while the waka symbolizes the journey and the
of the oceanian peoples.
This portrait is an anthem to New Zealand life and culture, and invites the viewer to
to contemplate the richness, spirituality and strength of millennial traditions. The work is at once
intimate and universal, merging human, myth and nature in a vibrant celebration
living.
about this artist
Sylvaine Merlet’s painting is a crossing.
A dive into the visible and invisible layers of the world, where human, nature
and the imagination intertwined. His images are born of a need to hard what escapes
the words: the emotions buried, the collective memories, the silent bonds that unite the
beings.
The look is at the heart of his approach. It is threshold, passage, mirror. It’s through him that he’s
fragility, strength, doubt and hope prevail. The figures that she painted are not
not content to be seen: they look back, inviting the spectator to a meeting
Intimate, almost meditative.
Each canvas is built as a world to explore. Under the apparent unity arise
fragments, symbols, hidden narratives, like so many strata of thought.
The work reveals itself slowly, to the one who agrees to lose his stature,
let time do its work.
The colour is alive, vibrant, sometimes incandescent. She carries raw emotion, guides the
look and circulate energy. It is breath, impulse, inner movement.
Painting becomes an act of binding:
Connect the human to the living, the present to the ancient myths, the real to the imaginary.
In a fragmented world, Sylvaine Merlet’s painting opens one. Resonance space,
of contemplation and dream where everyone can find a forgotten part of himself.
