From a work to another, Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux leads us into a pictorial narrative where the anecdotes of a personal history and the chronicles of a plural world are intertwined. He makes us penetrate in his universe made of childhood memories, adolescence and family stories, at the border of the real and the imaginary.
At the heart of the artist's plastic research is the will to connect to a matrix ancestrality, linked to past and sometimes secret rites, constantly updated by a contemporary quest for meaning.
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux explores in particular the multiple facets of the color black which for him carries a symbolic weight. Beyond a skin color, it symbolizes in various Afro-Caribbean and Indian spiritualities a divine color, the symbol of the kiss of the sun, the black coal. Primordial and cosmic color, place of creation and destruction, the black is the essential component of the drawings of the artist, whose format reminds of identity photographs.
The artist uses this color by superimposing thicker and thinner textures, leaving room for asperities that echo the complexity and plurality of the identity of the people represented. In search of a truth and not of a perfection, he voluntarily leaves the trace of his artistic process, the painting in the process of being made, as a clue that everything is still and that everything happens.
Beyond the physical, beyond the tangible, the painting of Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux is that of a wide open thought, that of the thought in sharing.