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How and why would you want to balance a painted stone on the edge of a metal blade? It seems to me that this display represents the very essence of Dominic Grisor's work. Everything in his work is a search for balance. Here in an arrangement as unstable as it is improbable; elsewhere between line and surface, relief and plane or figuration and abstraction.

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How to hold things together? Haven't I often heard the artist say, when considering one or other of his works: "It holds! It's a fairly common expression among visual artists, but one that takes on a very special meaning for him. Because that's what it's all about: holding things together. Shapes and colours in space first of all, in a sort of clever and magnificent interplay. Or signs and things in the search for subtle symbolic correspondences.

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And why do we want to "hold things together"? Because it seems to me that in Dominic Grisor's work there is a stubborn search for relationships and combinations that might reveal something of the world's profound structure. In this way, for him, 'to make fit' would mean tuning into a mysterious order of the universe from which he would get the secret of exercising from a vision. Finally, wanting to "hold things together" because, beyond his images alone, it would also mean maintaining a certain order of things, preventing the world from falling apart.

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​Dominique Tourte