Born in 1989, Kerian Jarry is a French-Italian artist based in Paris. Trained in industrial design, modelling, and sculpture, he spent a decade in the United States working in architecture studios. This formation continues to inform a practice rooted in construction, resistance, and the physical behaviour of surfaces.

Jarry works with images and objects that carry authority, conflict, circulated, recognisable, and already inscribed with meaning. Rather than reproducing them, he subjects them to a process of recouvrement: a sustained act of covering that does not erase the image, but interrupts it. Paint is applied as matter: opaque, granular, at times excessive, obstructing legibility while allowing fragments to persist.

Recouvrement operates as both gesture and structure. It resists the image’s authority without fully negating it, producing a surface where visibility is unstable and meaning cannot settle. What emerges is neither image nor abstraction, but a suspended state between the two.

His paintings hold this tension without resolution. Seduction remains through scale, texture, and colour, but it is continually compromised. Something is withheld, pressed back into the surface. What is at stake is not representation, but the conditions under which an image appears, asserts itself, and begins to fail.