The wonder of daily life | Marc Dailly

Marc Dailly’s paintings invite us to detach ourselves from reality for a while, to savour the pleasure of floating carefree above it. They take us into a state of semi-awakening, on the edge of a dream, where everyday banality can tip over into a kind of familiar wonder. It’s a painting of proximity, of immediate observation, with no messianic or demonstrative ambition, no historical reference, no desire to be part of a trend, a movement, a history. It is a narrative painting with no subject other than the mute testimony of everyday objects in their sensitive materiality, of family scenes, in the happiness of the moment shrouded in serene and gentle anxiety.