Théo Viardin’s paintings do not exist without dichotomies, without oppositions, without the complexity of contrast. Within this way of observing the world, pessimism and optimism also coexist. In his work, Viardin reflects on the end of humanity as we know it and the arrival of another era, after we have deprived the planet of its most necessary resources. His figures painted in oil somehow represent a humanity from the future but with primitive features. While always maintaining an antagonistic vision, he shows us danger and protection, the individual and the community, lightness and darkness, classicism and contemporaneity.