Christophe Stibio wants to take you back to the landscape. To ask what it is you actually see. To question the relationship between nature and humans. To look at land in the context of time and culture as well as experience something akin to nature: disharmonious, unpredictable, yet fragile and intimate.
Curator Georges Petitjean (AAMU, The Netherlands) comments:
Christophe Stibio is not afraid of the land. He endeavours to plough it mentally. He is determined to go deeper, to explore what is under its skin. His art is the visual and tangible result of a profound mental geology of a country which has both physical and spiritual dimensions [...] Lines constitute one of the most important components in these compositions, as they serve to express the land, [...] However, Stibio's pictures are semantically left open. Lines are not there to enclose the landscape, but to imagine it, [...] both the transient character and the timeless monumentality. It is an examination of the relationship to the land that is constantly being questioned.
In an era marked by global socio-economical and ensuing environmental changes, this is a very timely conversation.