“Very detailed drawings, with Stabilotone, which are bathed in an unreal climate. These compositions always include several characters, if we can call these bodies stretched like chewing gum, with ghostly hands, sometimes inflated like a balloon, sometimes thinned to the size of a thread. Above all, it is the faces that appeal, similar in each image, reduced to a sort of white square, which evokes the screen of a television or a computer. There is a desperate lack of a mouth to scream, eyes to cry. This unreal climate evokes that of Anna Blume, heroine of a novel by Paul Auster, lost in a world without a soul. A futuristic world that leaves little optimism for the reader or viewer. However, the shades that Viviane Loutan uses are soft, as is the treatment of the surfaces, covered with so many grease pencil lines that they become silky, it looks like a rain of golden hair draws shapes on pearly flesh. , to use tender and sensual metaphors. This patient and mastered technique, which recalls that used by Pierre Klossowski to produce drawings charged or rather "tense" with eroticism, therefore restores a softness to the absurd world depicted, as if the artist was trying to counter the unfortunate destiny of humanity. »