Au commencement était le signe .

From the first drawings to works on paper, from the installation of drawings made in hotel rooms during tours with Tadeusz Kantor upon hotel stationery paper to drawings made with an iPad.

From the very beginning of his research, the artist investigates the philosophical themes that will accompany him throughout his career. Signs, letters and figures appear in formal composition, composing the alphabet of his language like hieroglyphics and encapsulating the profound meaning of his thought. Jean-Marie Barotte invents a language by creating cosmogonies that question us on the question of time, passage and death. {Seuil – Temps – Theologie).