Yoakim Bélanger | DOGMA: Solo Exhibition | GLR41

In a world where truth wavers under the weight of imposed certainties, DOGMA questions erasure, reconstruction, and the search for identity. Through fragmented faces and surfaces marked by time, this series explores the tension between submission and emancipation, between dogma and free thought.

The image, though partially erased, does not disappear: it is reborn, freed from its constraints to reveal a new truth. Metal, both surface and living material, bears the memory of traces, of wounds, but also of resistance. Every scratch, every oxidation, speaks of struggle, persistence, and passage.

The mouth, often the only visible trace of the face, embodies speech that resists—speech that persists despite censorship and oblivion. The absence of eyes is not a denial, but an open space, an invitation to redefine oneself, to break free from external judgment.

In this series, the opposition between destruction and rebirth, figuration and abstraction, oppression and liberation becomes the ground for a dialogue where art does not dictate a truth, but invites us to rediscover it.