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SLEEPING BEAUTEES In his « Sleeping Beauties » series, Jean-François Rauzier treats the topic of sleep as a doorway to mystery, dreams, and lyricism. The male character contemplates, on the threshold of his own night, the young sleeping beauty being the symbol of what is lost. Inspired by Kawabata and Balthus, the symbolic universe proposed by the artist is an attempt to solve contradictions which in reality would be without exit: the presence/absence, love/death, the existing intimacy between artist and model and the difference that separates them, the desire of youth and beauty and its inaccessible nature. Illusion and reality are closely bound here, and through the search of an ideal to be reached, the work of Jean-François Rauzier is that of a man who probes the incommensurable complexity of the heart – a dark search, but always triumphant because it is so human.