From the beginning of his career, GRATALOUP painted out of a desire to understand how the world is made, why it exists, and what place human beings occupy within it. This question runs through his entire body of work, never finding a final resolution. Painting offers no definitive answers. It is the very space in which the search unfolds.

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The exhibition Between Worlds brings this inquiry into sharper focus. It brings together different planes of reality: matter and light, the earthly and the celestial, the visible and what eludes our perception. These worlds are not separate. They touch, overlap, and flow through one another. The pictorial space becomes an unstable threshold, a place where nothing is ever permanently fixed.

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GRATALOUP works with simple motifs: a landscape, a circle, a horizon line. These forms become starting points for pictorial exploration. Through drawing, cutting, rubbing, layering, and the removal of material, he creates surfaces where painting moves between density and absence. The canvas is never an enclosed space, but a fragment of the world, drawn from a larger whole that we can never fully grasp.