About My Journey

Youri Laubscher González, born in 1969 in Biel/Bienne, has been exploring the intersection of artistic vision and design expertise for over 30 years. Trained in graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, he has developed his creative universe through collaborations in Barcelona, Zurich, Basel, Solothurn, and Bern. Today, he lives in Bern with his partner and is fully dedicated to art, blending painting, performance, and digital creation. He is also the father of a daughter.

Art as Metamorphosis: Between Humanity, Image, and Process

My artistic approach is hybrid, oscillating between the tangible and the digital. On canvas or paper, painting and drawing lay down an initial impulse, raw and instinctive. This physical dimension is enriched by digital work, where the image evolves through graphic interventions, visual experimentation, and performative elements. One does not replace the other: they interact, overlap, and sometimes oppose each other, creating a dynamic balance between material and virtual realms.

I seek to capture the moment when gesture escapes control, when accident becomes creation. Influenced by artists such as Goya, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon, I develop an aesthetic where chaos and structure coexist, and where the unfinished asserts itself as a language of its own.

In my work, each medium retains its identity while being enriched by the other. The spontaneity of the physical gesture intertwines with the openness and experimentation offered by digital tools. Through the layering of textures and the tension between materiality and immateriality, my work creates floating spaces where the personal meets the universal.

Like in Art Brut, I embrace imperfection, intuition, and rawness—elements that give the image a life of its own, elusive and in constant flux.

My work does not seek to affirm or fix a truth. It is a field of experimentation, an invitation to redefine our relationship with images, memory, and the continuous transformation that shapes our perception of the world and ourselves.