Introduction to Qotbi's work by Dominique de Villepin

Is it color or language, this stream of signs, upstroke of arabesques and regular rain of fonts? Everything is mystery, silence hidden in the links of writing. Illuminations, metalwork, or stucco carvings, nothing exhausts the meaning of this devastating claw that hangs over the canvas, travels through space, dances, and continues to slide further and deeper into the secret of color.

Because the two are mixing with each other: color and language. Space and signs. Together, they are forming a unique and new landscape. Together they speak. As a bird is walking on snow or sand, it deposits its light footprint -- and then another bird comes and thousands again, until they leave some trace of chance in all the fields of the world. The bird learns the loose soil. Here, the straight line or curve tames the color.

This painting of embrace wants to be opened to the four winds. The threads intersect and intertwine themselves, slamming as straps whip on the page, light and dark blues discharge into each other, yellow dots light the intersection of letters, but only one fabric is composed. Only one frame is tied, whose impeccable unit can be read under the daylight.

Dominique de Villepin is a former Prime Minister of France.