Vanitas

A major body of work by Paul Béliveau, the Vanitas series (2002–2026) explores notions of time, memory, and history through compositions built from images of books, sourced and recomposed into a layered visual library.

• Artist: Paul Béliveau
• Period: 2002 to present
• Body of work: Iconic and continuously evolving series
• Techniques: Original works and screenprints
• Approach: Recomposition of book imagery drawn from a virtual library
• Themes: Time, memory, history, transmission of knowledge
• Feature: Dialogue between literary works, artworks, and major cultural references
• Context: Emerging from the Les humanités corpus, where the artist explores his influences and the construction of his visual language

Layers of knowledge and fragments of memory accumulate into an architecture of time, where each book becomes a trace, an echo, and a space for reflection.