PROJECTILES
The splinters on the canvas are modalities by which the color is expressed; it is no longer the contours that delimit the latter, but the very existence of splashes, disseminated according to the canvas itself, or in a space restricted, or in an openwork space.
The question of whether or not Michèle Sainte-Rose's painting transgresses reality no longer arises, since she creates her own autonomous universe made up almost exclusively of matter: canvas, oil and color. If we had to define it, we could say that it is about a sensualist painting, without backworld, without horizon behind the canvas, cutting short the interpretations. The full and complete extent, alone.
What meaning does this painting have? That of the flamboyant shimmer of what is shown: the flashes and squirts of puddles of color in the fluctuating flow of the surface of the canvas. We can certainly see something else, what we want. But in fact these are projectiles that Michèle Sainte-Rose sends us, through the materiality of their spurts.
You are hit or you are not, like the swordsman in a fight. Painting becomes an activity which consists in absorbing the void. This is why the painting does not describe anything but expresses sound and visual intensities.