Passages # 3 (2023)

Gene Barbe is living and working in France, but was born in North London in 1975. His autodidactic journey brought him to painting in the early 2000s. By considering all possible origines and destinations that someone may encounter, Gene Barbe paints instinctively, beyond his own identity, and tries to reach out for a universal presence, poetic and imperfect, witnessing the ancient and the immediate.

About Passages # 3 (Mixed media on canvas) 

To find people in touch, with our fearless colours, to feel some form of freedom, of rebirth, Gene lost himself in this exponential process. You find a passage to another passage. You accept chaos and contradictions, abstract and figurative, you can even carry souls like collage. Passages combines stories through generation with an open eye on tomorrow.