The series «L’Étranger» is a cycle of painted landscapes in which the human figure is absent. The exclusion of the human from the picture of the world becomes a key gesture: it is precisely this absence that highlights the fundamental dichotomy between nature and culture. The landscapes appear as spaces indifferent to human presence, yet they preserve the gaze — a testimony to the experience of existence within a landscape that does not need humanity.

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The title of the series refers to Albert Camus’s novel L’Étranger, where the figure of the outsider embodies both estrangement and the experience of the absurd. In these painted spaces, nature itself becomes “strange” — alien, resistant to familiar cultural definitions. The landscape neither consoles nor mirrors subjective emotions, but instead asserts an ontological fact: the indifference of the world toward humankind.

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The painting of the series is built upon the play of light, color, and optical shifts. Space fractures and refracts, creating a sense of fluidity and instability, as though the gaze captures not form but the very movement of air and light. Thus emerges the existential landscape — a landscape that speaks of the human precisely through its absence.