<Venice Beach>

In the early 2000s, French artist Pierre Moignard made his first trip to the American West Coast. On Venice Beach, a sprawling beach on the Pacific populated by muscular swimmers, he noticed the homeless people wrapped in shapeless, colourful sleeping bags, who became almost the sole motifs in his Californian landscapes. The silhouette of a lifeguard’s hut and a few simple rubbish bins structure this ghostly painting, symbolising the quiet decay of contemporary America.