Favouring the portrait genre as his main means of expression, David Weishaar chooses his models from among people with whom he has a strong relationship within the queer scene. He takes his characters into nocturnal worlds referenced from fantasy, mainstream or witch stories. These dreamlike and symbolic environments are conducive to the exploration of bodies, genders and desires. Through his pictorial work, he attempts to deconstruct and make visible the relationship to plural identities.

David Weishaar's works evoke the memory of a ghostly, mysterious and furtive encounter, on a motorway or elsewhere, which then settles like a doubt in the memory, creating ambiguous images in the memories. They deal with this strangeness of the friction of the encounter, as the pictorial technique used produces the same effect of introducing disorder into our imagination. We may think we are looking at characters straight out of a Berlin club, but we could just as easily distinguish angels who have fallen from the sky, mermaids who have emerged from a lagoon, aliens who have descended from their spaceship, or even a very real emotional community that the artist has photographed and painted on the spot. The paintings reproduce this feeling of doubtful hallucination, like the uncertain sensation of having crossed paths with a ghost on the side of a road, expressing the vivacity of experience through the synthesis between fantasised memory and the simplicity of the material used. Unprepared, the works show the crudity of the painter's vision, backed by the images that inhabit it, responding to vague memories buried in the visitor's psyche. It is as if David Weishaar drew on our imaginary world to capture the reverse side of it, to reveal the creatures lurking in the shadows, here embodied by gloomy ephebes. This diversions through the representation of bodies veils the painter's desire to confront us with the harshness of an encounter with a foreign material called paint, in direct relation with the canvas. Rémi Guezodje