My Own Private Museum (from 2023)
The paintings of the My Own Private Museum series question how artists are recognized in an ubiquitous and growing omniscient digital environment.
Stéphane Ducret’s portraits of contemporary masters and representations of their historical and contemporary masterpieces bring together three interconnected and inextricable entities that define any work of art: the artist’s concept of the work, the technique used to create it and the artwork itself.
Real Estate (2017 - 2021)
In the Real Estate series, Stéphane Ducret explores the relationship between reality and imagination, between knowledge and recognition, blurring limits of perception.
Contemporary masterpieces are combined in imaginary settings in which Stéphane Ducret creates new narratives, disconnected from their original context, setting up a complex and highly referenced multi-sided imaginary dialogue, in which he takes up and develops the discourse of the artists he quotes.