PHILIPPE VIEJO

Philippe Viejo (b. France) lives and works between Europe and Mexico.

His work unfolds as a visual journey shaped by movement, memory, and human connection. A lifelong traveller, Viejo draws from displacement the very substance of his painting: a raw beauty, caught in passing, rendered through a technique of his own — resin, glass, and layered transparency, what he calls “shards of life.”

His compositions oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Light passes through matter, texture holds the accident, and colour carries in turn the intensity of the city and the quiet of inward reflection. Each layer of resin operates as a threshold: it reveals and withholds at once, deferring the gaze, reconstituting the way an image settles into memory.
His time in Mexico City marks a decisive turn. The city, in its density and its contradictions, feeds a sustained inquiry into the duality of humanity — its brilliance and its complexity, its violence and its tenderness. From that experience comes a body of work that refuses synthesis and prefers the coexistence of opposites.

Each work becomes a passage between inner and outer worlds. Standing before these surfaces, at once reflective and porous, the viewer is returned to their own path