About

Across various media - painting, drawing, photography and video - Yoakim Bélanger highlights the physical appearance of humanity and celebrates its strength, passion and grace.
Yoakim Bélanger revisits and sublimates the ‘plastic thinking’ (Gerhard Richter) of the body by creating a unique dialogue between the material and its medium. Exclusively working on metal as a medium, Yoakim accomplishes a vibrant and textured brushwork where both abstraction and figurative, order and chaos, shade and light are merging in order to reach an ultimate goal: portraying the body through the soul.

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