Edi Dubien

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Drawing.

Jeune garçon trans, 2019

Drawing, watercolour, pencil.

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Drawing.

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Drawing.

Mes amours blessés, 2020

Watercolour, acrylic and pencil on paper

Jeune enfant, 2020

Watercolour, acrylic and pencil on paper

Automne, 2020

Watercolour and pencil on paper

Sans titre, sans date

Drawing.

Voyage en solitaire, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

Cendrillon taille bien la taille d’un pitbull, 2022

Polyester resin and transparent resin

Colargol is not dead, 2020

Paint, watercolour, pencil and ink on paper.

Edi Dubien’s work explores the social, psychological and emotional constructs of the individual, which are sometimes at odds with conventional discourse and imposed patterns of life. His drawings and watercolours conjure up images of flora and fauna and depict people — from childhood to adulthood — reduced to silence by the violence of a society that respects neither difference nor the environment. Edi Dubien’s work is a sensitive dialogue between humans and nature. It invites the viewer to recognise the importance of accepting our own difference and showing respect for others.

Echoing his own personal story, Edi Dubien’s drawing evokes the love of nature and animals that enabled him to escape problems to do with identity and gender assignment that he faced as a child. In his depictions of the faces of children, adolescents and animals in make-up or adorned with jewellery, often made from plants, the artist suggests benevolently and tenderly the possibility of a new harmony with the living world. Blending humour and melancholy, he evokes the fragility of life itself through the presence of skulls, sometimes huge, sometimes reduced to the size of an earring.