Untitled, 2015

Provenance: Kim Bryan Projects LLC; acquired from the above by the current owner, 2014.

Benoît Platéus’ practice is rooted in appropriation and collage, drawing on found imagery to explore perception, authorship, and the instability of visual meaning. Working across painting and assemblage, he reconfigures existing images—often sourced from film, magazines, or popular culture—into fragmented compositions that challenge conventional modes of reading and recognition.

In Untitled (2015), overlapping photographic elements are disrupted by blocks of colour and shifts in scale, partially obscuring the central figure and destabilising the narrative suggested by the imagery. The interplay between concealment and revelation becomes central to the work, as Platéus interrupts the viewer’s attempt to form a coherent image. Through this process of layering and erasure, the artist foregrounds the constructed nature of images, inviting reflection on memory, mediation, and the fragmentation of visual experience.