Gaëtan de Séguin

Gaëtan de Séguin paints crowds. They are made from a multitude of silhouettes, all of them almost identical but also singular. Beings who, through the creation of the painting itself, become patterns. Recurrent, haunting, swarming, building a new life, a new being.

Sometimes a silhouette, peculiar and mute, escapes from the crowd but never finds its salvation. On its own, passing by the others without ever comprehending them.

Multitude and unique, anonymity and privacy, silence and noise. There is a bit of all this in Gaëtan's painting, a painting of the plural singular.

Gaëtan's work illustrates 'The case for climate popularism' by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas, published in Issue 358, September/October 2026.