Sébastien Bonin, La maison III, 2025, oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm. La maison III, from the series “La maison”, closely frames the gable of a rural building.

La maison III, 2025
oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm

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Little by little
the bird builds its nest — summer
comes back with the key

La maison III, from the series “La maison”, closely frames the gable of a rural building. The pink façade fills almost the entire canvas; two pale spots, like two skylights or two eyes, turn the building into a face.

Sébastien Bonin looks at vernacular architecture as built memory: simple, inherited forms, remade from generation to generation, which painting isolates to make them a mental space as much as an image.