Frédéric Poincelet

I don’t know if one can truly place my work in the cat­e­gory of “erotic art,” because my moti­va­tions have noth­ing to do with lay­ing out a fan­tas­ti­cal uni­verse or libido on paper. It cer­tainly has to do with a clean inti­macy, which is why I rep­re­sent cer­tain types of girls rather than oth­ers, why there is an insis­tence on the female model. The issue of eroti­cism is rightly raised because sex­ual stim­uli enter into the process of con­struct­ing the draw­ings. This is evi­dent in the excite­ment aroused in the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a body, by one remark­able detail that cre­ates the desire to draw. The act of draw­ing tells the story of the birth of this spark. How­ever, fol­low­ing on the steps of this “sex­ual stim­uli,” the draw­ing process trans­forms all of this “inti­mate his­tory” into a purely artis­tic ges­ture. This ges­ture poses for­mal ques­tions as well as ques­tions related to the inher­ent direc­tion of the practice–questions related to accu­racy in draw­ing, clas­si­cism, and contemporaneity…