PRESS RELEASE
When Gesture Becomes the Language of the Soul: Toward a New Era of Sensitive Painting
Paris, 2026
At a time when images are instantaneous, endlessly reproducible, and often stripped of depth, a new expectation is emerging in the art world: that of an embodied work, capable of revealing the human being in what is most intimate, most fragile, most true — an embodied Presence, a sensitive Presence, which could be called Sensitive Presence or Embodied Presence.
Painting is now entering a decisive cycle. The next five years will see the clear emergence of a movement already perceptible: the sensitive cognition of gesture, in which human presence manifests itself through matter and movement.
A major trend for the next five years
In response to visual saturation, generative artificial intelligence, and polished aesthetics, the attention of collectors, institutions, and galleries is shifting toward a form of painting:
- where gesture precedes idea,
- where emotion comes before concept,
- where the body thinks before the intellect.
This movement is neither decorative nor narrative. It is revelatory.
The sensitive cognition of gesture is emerging as the most promising current for the future:
an art in which gesture becomes an act of knowledge, where matter records the movements of the soul, where the canvas becomes the site of an embodied Presence — an Embodied Presence that restores unfiltered human truth.
We are witnessing the rise of a renewed inner expressionism, freed from historical codes yet nourished by a contemporary imperative: to feel before understanding, to welcome a sensitive Presence — a Sensitive Presence.
Gesture as emotional intelligence
In this new paradigm, gesture is no longer a simple plastic means.
It is thought in motion, an instinctive form of writing, sometimes almost wild, in which the artist accepts the element of disorder, trembling, and “sensitive madness” inherent to the human condition.
What the hand produces is not an image:
it is an embodied revelation, an Embodied Presence that makes visible what is lived internally.
The work does not seek to seduce; it exposes.
Harouna: a body of work already resonating with the future
It is precisely within this space that the work of Harouna, contemporary painter, finds its place.
His painting does not tell a story: it feels.
It does not describe: it reveals.
Each canvas is the result of a direct dialogue between body, emotion, and matter.
The gesture is instinctive, sometimes brutal, always sincere.
It does not seek perfection, but emotional accuracy.
Harouna’s art fully embodies this sensitive cognition of gesture:
- an inhabited abstraction,
- a painting where the soul is laid bare,
- a body of work permeated by a sensitive Presence and an embodied Presence,
- where inner vibration becomes Sensitive Presence.
In his paintings, the viewer does not contemplate an image:
they encounter a state, a vibration, a fragment of humanity.
A painting in tune with its time — and with what lies ahead
As the world accelerates, Harouna’s work slows the gaze.
As everything becomes calculated, it feels.
As art sometimes becomes so conceptual that presence fades, it reasserts the human presence — an Embodied Presence inscribed in matter.
It is precisely this ability to reveal intimacy through gesture that will define the artistic, cultural, and patrimonial value of works over the next five to ten years.
Harouna does not follow a trend.
He already embodies where contemporary painting is headed:
a painting of sensitive Presence — a Sensitive Presence.
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