"Work meticulously to make the unthinkable thinkable": says Fabien Mérelle when he describes his way of drawing. By detailing each image at length, the artist gives the scenes he depicts a concrete appearance. These surreal scenes assemble elements of reality as do dreams or nightmares: humans mutate into animals or plants, houses are precarious huts; the falls look like take-offs. The void, very present on the sheet, places these situations in an uncertain and open world. The drawings sometimes become sculptures, as was the case in 2013 in Hong Kong with Pentateuque, or in 2019 in Antwerp with Faucon, Merle, Mérelle and Tourterelle. In the form of drawings or volumes, these strangenesses feature the artist himself, dressed in pajamas, or his relatives. Just like dreams or nightmares, these enigmatic, metaphorical images seem to contain hidden meanings within them. They appear in the mirror of the dreams of every ordinary person, who experiences their daily life and their anxieties.
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