Jardin’s exhibition Fade In includes the artist’s print-based works, which repurpose massproduced advertising imagery, from 2014. Jardin collects promotional posters and magazine images and applies transparent solvents to their surfaces. Such chemicals erode and alter the printed images, preserving their colors while obscuring the picture. This approach has allowed the artist to work in new ways, he says, enabling him to transform and respond to commercial images. Jardin is influenced by the genre of Nouveau Réalisme, a term coined in 1960 to describe the work of a group of artists who sought inspiration and content in the materials of everyday life. He cites the artists François Dufrêne, Jean Fautrier, Raymond Hains and Yves Klein as particular influences. Jardin uses a wide range of imagery in his work, from portraits to landscapes to pornography, choosing images with minimal aesthetic content. The finished pieces appear worked over, as though successive layers have been applied and erased. Visible brushstrokes allude to the process of painting, though, unlike paint, Jardin’s materials are not creating new forms but manipulating and reimagining preexisting ones. Lucas Jardin lives and works in Brussels. His work has been exhibited in Brussels, Belgium; Nice, France; and Tangier, Morocco.