This section is neither chronological nor exhaustive. It simply invites you to explore Georges Rousse's images, putting forth some key concepts that will guide you through his wide-ranging, multifaceted body of work.

I Figuration

These painted figures with their ghostly appearance serve as a springboard for the imagination. like mute actors in a play, but in a theatre that turns the traditional relationship of actor to stage set upside down; here, the active subject is the fullness of the space, which is revealed like a haunting "site from memory".
Delphine Renard in Flash Art, May 1983.