Something outside, is calling.
The things hidden from us become the reason for a journey.
What follows then, is the attempt to translate this path, by painting, aiming to open windows on a fictionnal world, building itself.
Painting becomes the way to leave a trace of those visions that haunts the mind, because anything not saved is lost.
«[…] That’s because many things are beyond the limits of human understanding that we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot fully define or understand.»1
1.The man and his symbols ,concieved and realised by CG. JUNG, edition Robert Lafort, 1964 (translation from the artist)
Gladys Bonnet is a painter living and working in the south of France, near Nice.
She captures, through paint, what she does not achieves with a camera: to save her inner perception. Into her work, painting is used to depict and conserve what resides into a pictural imagination.
She composes with what she can remember. And then she distorts, adds, then she comes to deposit her visions on white surfaces. She paints intimists formats mostly. The detail provided demonstrates the desire to set these visions, with the greatest care. Paintings become the means to fix the thought: impalpable and volatile. The painting then becomes like a gateway to an outer world. An unreal world then develops through these small paintings which allows her to establish introspection.
She studied at the Royal Art school of fine arts of Brussels in paint specialty. Through her master degree in 2022, she won the Boghossian Foundation Price. In 2023, she exposed her first solo exhibition with Nosbaum Reding gallery in Luxembourg. At the end of the same year, she participated to her first collective exhibition at Orbis Pictus at Paris with the french painter Olivier Masmonteil, who was her master during a short period of time in 2021. In 2025, she exposed her firsts solo shows in France at Backslash gallery (Paris) and in Belgium with La peau de l’ours gallery (Brussels).
