About My Journey

Born in 1969 in Biel/Bienne, Youri Laubscher González has been exploring the points of friction between artistic vision and design expertise for over three decades. Trained in graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, he has shaped his visual language through collaborations in Barcelona, Zurich, Basel, Solothurn, and Bern. Today, he lives in Bern with his partner and is fully devoted to artistic creation — a fluid space where painting, performance, and digital art intersect. He is also the father of a daughter.

Art as Metamorphosis: between inner chaos, perception, and transformation

My practice is a response to the tension of the world — a place where layers of reality, intimate gestures, flashes of thought, and fractures of the time we live in are laid bare. Superimposed strata reveal raw, expressive textures, where the visible merges with the unspeakable. My work investigates the shifting boundary between the tangible and the immaterial, between matter and memory.

In the face of quiet fears, creeping obsessions, mental rigidity, and inner paralysis — that press on the mind and sometimes suffocate — the canvas becomes a release valve. It’s there that flow is unleashed. A space where drifting, flickering, doubt, and searching intertwine. A terrain where the light and the graceful inevitably meet the dark and the dense.

These encounters feed my gestures. What I seek is that moment of tipping — when control slips away, when accident becomes language, when shadow reveals form. Inspired by figures like Goya, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon, I develop an aesthetic of imbalance, where chaos and structure converse, and where the unfinished breathes its own rhythm.

Each medium retains its autonomy while engaging with the other. The physical gesture — instinctive, raw, sometimes rough — is enriched by digital interventions: filtered, shaped, open to error and transformation. This hybridity allows me to create floating, unstable spaces where the personal stretches toward the universal.

In the spirit of Art Brut, I embrace imperfection, intuition, and the tension between mastery and loss of control. What matters to me is that the image lives — that it breathes, hesitates, emerges, withdraws, and becomes almost a being in itself. And in its fragility, that it questions.

My work does not aim to assert a truth or fix a form. It explores. It falters. It allows room for the unresolved. It invites us to rethink our relationship with images, with memory, and with transformation — for within this emotional field of experimentation, every trace carries a fragment of our inner cosmos.