"By painting apparently realistic pictures in blue, I was presenting reality and non-reality."
Having produced over 2000 paintings, experimental films, filmed performances, the work of Jacques Monory is one of the most significant figures of Narrative Figuration. Monory's paintings create oppressive and threatening atmospheres. The themes are developed in a series of canvases painted in blue, pink, or yellow and the images used by the artist come directly from contemporary society. Passionate about cinema, he also draws on the art of comics and photography to fuel his painting. His photographic and cinematographic borrowings, his use of monochrome, his coldness of touch, and his composition characterise an individual style committed to representation. The visible that he represented and painted has never been just what you think you see, but what the media shows.