Passionate Frenchman Alain Padeau is an artist driven by his obsession to understand man’s connection with the human skin. To him, the human skin is the very basis of creation, the clothing of humankind and yet in his world he sees it work as a force of destruction. Destruction because it becomes the root of most evils we face in the world today. “Everything revolves around whether a person is black, white or yellow – it’s a complex problem you don’t just find in art. It’s ingrained in human relationships, in our political systems, even in our attitudes,” observes Padeau.

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