Artist: Ivan Arlaud

In Memory Rooms, Ivan Arlaud transforms fragments of everyday life into spaces of memory and projection. His interiors, bathed in light, are both familiar and suspended - places where time seems to have paused, just before or after a presence. Everything breathes the warmth of a lived moment: a still-warm cup, half-open books, freshly cut flowers, summer light filtering through a window.

Arlaud follows in the footsteps of the modern painters who made the intimate space a stage for silent emotions. One thinks of Henri Matisse, for the clarity and sensuality of his color; Pierre Bonnard, for his ability to capture domestic light and the tenderness of ordinary gestures; but also Edward Hopper, whose inhabited solitude and tension between interiority and open horizon find echoes here. In certain paintings, the precision of line and the quiet presence of furniture recall Giorgio Morandi or Vilhelm Hammershøi - artists of restraint, masters of silence.

Yet Memory Rooms is not a nostalgic homage. These acrylic paintings speak of a reinvented present - one made of reconstructed memories. The title of the exhibition evokes the memory of places, but also the way in which places remember us. Each composition functions like a mental room: a scene from daily life turned into a lasting image, distilled to its essence.

The repetition of certain motifs - open books, bouquets of flowers, glasses of water, bowls of fruit, empty chairs - creates a grammar of intimacy. Arlaud explores the boundary between still life and interior scene, between setting and recollection. Painting becomes an act of remembrance: it rekindles the quiet beauty of ordinary things, in a clear, Mediterranean light that seems to filter directly from memory itself.

In Memory Rooms, color becomes narrative. The blue of the sky, the green of plants, the vivid oranges or the red of a curtain do not depict an observed reality but rather an emotion fixed in paint. These interiors and Mediterranean landscapes - sometimes crossed by modernist echoes, from Cocteau to Kandinsky, from Mies van der Rohe to Klee - reconstruct a harmonious world where painting, design, and literature meet.

Between formal precision and chromatic softness, Arlaud reaffirms the silent power of painting: its ability to give shape to memory, to light, and to the still beauty of simple moments.