Real Estate, 2025

Stéphane Ducret's Real Estate 2025 series is a continuation of his exploration of contemporary life, capitalism, and the shifting meanings of artistic and social value. This particular series focuses on “trophy” artworks, examining how they have become vehicles for speculation, commodification, and status display in modern culture.

While his previous Real Estate series drew parallels between the art world and urban real estate, showing how properties and paintings are bought, traded, and valued more as investments or social representations than as sources of meaning or beauty, in his new series, irony and poetry play a more important role in the creative process.

Here, there is often a deliberate tension between superficial aesthetics and conceptual meaning, with vibrant or formal compositions masking deeper poetic nuances.

Ducret's works in this series generally do not use a recognizable system. Instead, the paintings shift from abstract geometry to architectural forms, landscapes, and layered textures, following their sources and treated with colorful pictorial gestures.

Real Estate, 2025 builds on his previous Real Estate series, continuing his exploration of cultural displacement and value systems. It is part of Ducret's broader body of work that questions the institutional frameworks of art — galleries, markets, collectors — and how they reflect broader capitalist mechanisms.

In short, Real Estate, 2025 does not literally deal with art and artistic approaches, but rather uses these elements as sources of poetry and, as one would do with words, as “plays on artworks.”

The Real Estate series :

2017-2019 : Explore

2020-2021 : Explore

2025 : Current page

Drawings : Explore

Stéphane Ducret
PN17 (#mikekelley #stanleywhitney) (from the Real Estate series)
2025
Oil and oilstick on linen
34,0 x 27,7 x 2,7 cm | 13 ⅜ x 10 ⅞ x 1 inches

Stéphane Ducret
PN18 (#mikekelley #markgrotjahn) (from the Real Estate series)
2025
Oil and oilstick on linen
34,3 x 27,8 x 2,8 cm | 13 ½ x 11 x 1 ⅛ inches

Stéphane Ducret
PN21 (#joebradley #wadeguyton) (from the Real Estate series)
2025
Oil and oilstick on linen
34,7 x 27,2 x 2,6 cm | 13 ⅔ x 10 ⅔ x 1 inches

Stéphane Ducret
PN22 (#joebradley #wadeguyton) (from the Real Estate series)
2025
Oil and oilstick on linen
34,5 x 27,4 x 2,6 cm | 13 ⅝ x 10 ¾ x 1 inches