"For one reason or another, I decided to introduce a simplified figure into abstract paintings, finding that the viewer through this figure projects feelings or images into the painting.
For a short time, I used more realistic figures giving a surrealistic air to the work but at the same time limiting the interpretative play of the work.
Underlying this approach there is always the idea of the man who is weak and strong or who thinks he is strong and wants to be strong..."
Martine Deny (Luxembourg) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of Artistic Circle of Luxembourg.