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… Alain ROMAN is not naive enough to believe he can change the whole world. Hence, he undertakes to modify its representation. He just says : « Once apon a time… » and we get into the world each of us wishes to explore…

… « I have a dreamlike vision of the world, so, this world is just like a dream of it » Such is Alain Roman’s initial principle in his artistic practice. The thing is there is no fondamental gap between the reality as perceived by Alain Roman and the imagination as represented by him. The world, according to Alain Roman, is a built up and coherent whole, made of a strange and attrctive material. Both of these worlds, the imaginary as well as the real one, are made of the same elements : the way they are assembled and interpreted is the only difference…

Alain Roman’s imaginary power truly tells the sovereign right he gives himself to resolutely reorganize the elements among which he was born, in accordance with the way he wishes they were.He somehow likes to get a thrill out of living elsewhere…

… As we live in a world that works on reducing diversity, in a society which melts things in a sticky uniformity without paying much attentionto the others, Alain Roman, like a courteous lover, makes us remember how precious difference and distance are how endeless everyone’s mystery is…

… The world he is creating is made of the images that fullfill his expectations. Besides, the choice of a solitary way of life is the only way for him for avoiding compromises, of preserving his invicible strageness, and of reaching what does not fade away…

Alain Roman asserts his own difference, forms his own judgement and exerts his free will while driming his solitude…

There is the paradox of Alain Roman’s work : although the artist seems to stand apart from the others or, even more, seems to get rid of them, however, the works do need the others to be reflected in, so that they may exist and make sense…

From Hélène DEPOTTE