Through The Most Perfect Darkness
by Margaux Carpentier

Description

5 layers limited edition screen-print printed on GFSmith lilac 300 gsm paper.

All prints are signed and numbered by the artist

Edition size: 35.

Dimensions 39 x 52cm

Framed Dimensions: to be confirmed

Price includes frame

A luminous celebration of resilience and unity, Through the Most Perfect Darkness captures the fierce momentum of moving forward — even, and especially, through uncertainty. Two figures, merged into one shifting form, stride powerfully through a surreal nocturnal landscape lit by stars, flames, and symbolism. Carpentier’s trademark palette — deep greens, molten golds, and vivid reds — evokes a dreamspace that is both mythic and immediate.

The text woven around the border reads like a mantra: “We run against the wind, we run against everything… through the most perfect darkness across the fields of wonder.”
This poetic invocation sets the tone: a journey of determination, guided not by certainty but by inner fire and instinct.

The creatures and symbols that orbit the central figure — insects, foxes, stars, snakes — feel like companions or omens, part of the unseen world that Carpentier often makes visible in her work. Here, nature and the cosmos act as witnesses to human motion and transformation.

Both timeless and contemporary, Through the Most Perfect Darkness is a vivid reminder that progress is often made not in light, but in courageous movement through shadow.