Beyond painting is Maury Samuel's third exhibition in Paris, after Myth stories in 2022 and Ghost shadows in 2019.

Maury Samuel has "a head full of stories". Painting allows him to give them a presence other than writing. Through painting, he seeks emotion and gives us the gift of sharing it.

To look at the paintings of Maury is to enter a dreamlike universe. At first, there is what the eye perceives, then our brain takes over.

Thus the pareidolia that lead us to recognize a familiar form in a moving landscape. The canvases of Maury transport us beyond the first vision, a series of interwoven tales like so many embedded images.

If the artist draws from the depths of his unconscious, his paintings transpose reality. Imaginary landscapes, terrestrial or celestial, emerge characters who look at us, like a mirror of the soul, our questions as much as our desires.

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Beyond the only pictorial representation, these are then incredible stories that capture us. Each painting tells a story, a moment of life, and snapshots of destiny.