Michael Doucet builds a body of work deeply rooted in architecture: geometric forms, brutalist structures, ornamental details, and luminous planes of color shape compositions that are both rigorous and sensitive.
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern aesthetics, twentieth-century design, and the poetic thought of Gaston Bachelard, he creates pictorial spaces where memory, dream, and contemplation converge.
His paintings, often inhabited by iconic objects, statuettes, or botanical motifs, explore our relationship to time, oscillating between nostalgia and modernity. The melancholy that runs through them, far from darkening the image, unfolds as a gentle meditation an invitation to perceive the passing of time differently.
By moving away from the human figure, Doucet establishes a dialogue between architecture, nature, and design within silent universes, where the strength of color and the precision of form bring to life timeless spaces. Both anchored in history and resolutely contemporary, his work opens a poetic field where past and present resonate, and where each painting becomes a space for reflection and reverie.
2025
Poétique de l’espace , Raphaël Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
32 dias de Luz, Lux perpetua Art center, Merida, Mexico
Le code a changé , Diego Escobar Gallery, Marseille France
Le code a changé gallery ( collector house exhibition) Marseille, France
2024
Entre-deux mondes, Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
Poétique de l’espace I, Virginie Louvet GALLERY, Paris France
2022
Hanabi (Feux d’artifices) Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
2021
Les entre-temps, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
Entrevoir, Boa Lab curation Marion Guggenheim, Lisbon, Portugal
Le jeu des possibles, Diego Escobar GALLERY, Marseille, France
