Vanishing points: multiple. Symmetry: skewed. Structure: prolific. Léonard Combier's work is astonishing for the profusion of visual elements that appear and impose themselves on the eye from the first reading of the work. There is no hierarchy to direct the eye, to guide interpretation or to guide the viewer. It's all about letting yourself get lost in a painting so rich in detail that your appetite is quickly satisfied. At a time when images convey recurrent codes of interpretation, it's not easy to allow oneself to be invaded by a work of art and to accept losing the ascendancy. This is the case here. The image is so captivating that it is disconcerting. What's more, no exit seems to be the right one, perhaps simply because there is no way out. Total freedom in the shadow of an announced compartmentalisation.

The messages abound. Of course, humour is the main feature and is constantly called upon. More or less biting, scabrous or good-natured, it is deployed in all its facets. In reality, current affairs are never far away and, like the abundance of pictorial elements, the multiplicity of points of view propels the spectator into the heart of a novel with an extra-dialectical narrative. Society as a whole is examined with a fine-tooth comb, and no position is privileged. On the contrary, Léonard Combier's work offers a global picture of the world's turmoil.