2026-04-18

Philippe Decrauzat | Mrac Sérignan

Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan
18 April - 30 August 2026

Philippe Decrauzat. "Intercisio"
Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan
18 April - 30 August 2026


Philippe Decrauzat has developed an artistic practice that explores the mechanisms of vision through painting, film and installation. The artist’s practice is rooted in the legacy of 20th-century abstraction and in research into visual distortions conducted by artists since the 1960s. His work explores the optical phenomena, bodily processes and visual structures that shape the act of perception.
The exhibition at the MRAC brings together a collection of works that explore vision as a field of operations, rather than a simple act of observation.
The exhibition layout orchestrates a journey in which paintings and projections generate variations in intensity: changes in scale, shifts in light, and the instability of thresholds of visibility. Chessboards, labyrinths, patterns, grids, gradations – the recurring motifs in Philippe Decrauzat’s work form a journey in which geometric compositions, through their variations in light intensity and their effects of scale, prevent any stabilisation of the gaze, thus revealing that our perception does not function continuously. This principle of intermittency forms the artist’s field of action. The works are conceived as an active experience of the construction of the visible and stimulate various states of attention in which the gaze oscillates between the limits of visibility and areas of saturation. The articulation of forms and visual references takes the form of a physical experience.