A pictorial space composed of memories, layerings, temporalities, networks. Georges Noël’s painting is made up of lines that shatter and undulate, intermix and blur together without any precise determination. “[…] I began to want to tame these signs […] To achieve that, I needed to find a framework; the framework is the musical stave, the school exercise book. I organised slightly helicoidal lateral lines to give the impression that the movement began on the left and rose toward the right. I organised signs, sticks rather than scribbles, and I wrote as fast as I could using these motifs while trying to orient them differently to make them express a rhythm.” These signs clearly resemble a script in that they are a system of downstrokes, dots, chevrons, loops and undulations that repeat and echo each other and are capable of multiple variations. The work, however, does not comply with codes. Something always resists the establishment of a system, a something that triggers agitation and confusion, a something that ‘creates disorder’. Or rather, neither order nor disorder, but paradoxically both together.

Emmanuel Guigon