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Artist's Profile
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| M Pravat |
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Pravat’s art negates the external and delves into the internal, becoming a monologue. Without putting himself in the frame as he did in his earlier world he created a presence that is absent. It is the absent present that occupies the space in the rooms and the frames on the walls. Photographic realism is effectively used to build on another imagined reality.
There is mystery in the absence of human presence. And M. Pravat talks of non existentialism, the belonging and non-belonging in the physical occupation of a space. The crisis of modern existence. “I am there yet I am not”. The regally appointed homes, draped in expensive trappings are fantasies from the mundane realities where security/ stability itself are illusions. If perchance you hear champagne flutes clicking softly in the distance or chamber music wafting in, it is the photographic realism that invokes such wild imagining. Reality is the drone of the cranes outside deconstructing, demolishing the myths of secure walls.
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