In her new series of paintings, Johanna Baudou implies a world that continues beyond the boundaries of the images, a place, perhaps, to which the mind as the eyes could somehow travel and inhabit. We might think of these works as a chain of images, each leading to another and back again, describing territories or a world in which themes of transition, rites of passage and metaphorical journeys all have their place. 

In these small paintings the viewer encounters humans, animals, boats and silhouettes, mountains, roads and rivers, but the paintings still record a feeling of emptiness and of exile. Indeed, we are emerged into different states of being, between the present and the past, the imaginary and the real, the familiar and the vague. 

The artists seems to depict a transient time, a no-mans land where discontinued images emerge.  And yet we feel the paintings capture a mood, a familiarity, a link that unites us all. We question our human condition and the lost feeling of belonging, finding consolation of our suffering united with the wilderness, but in these distant lands we are faced with the mystery of our origin and our destiny.