Artist Statement
More
is more.
In a world where the dominant aesthetic celebrates minimalism, restraint and “less is more” as the only horizon of good taste, my work affirms another path: more is more.
Artist Statement
I claim saturated colour, joyful accumulation and generous ornamentation. Not as naive decoration, but as an act of resistance against a certain tyranny of sobriety that too often confuses austerity with sophistication.
Artificial intelligence becomes an accomplice in this celebration. By exploring its latent space, that algorithmic unconscious fed by images from all over the world, I generate hybrid architectures and impossible landscapes where cultural references freely intermingle.
This visual syncretism is not confusion; it is an affirmation of aesthetic diversity. In these image-worlds, all cultures of the picturesque coexist, freed from geography and from the hierarchies of Western taste.
My work is addressed to those accused of being “too much”: too much colour, too much decoration, too much life on the walls. To those who refuse grey as the compulsory horizon of maturity and seriousness.
Joyful maximalism is not frivolity; it is courage. In a world that asks us to be discreet, measured and “tasteful”, every vivid colour becomes a manifesto.
Creating with AI means digging into the digital memory of the world, an infinite archive of forms, colours and collective desires. It is what I call an archaeology of the latent: unearthing fragments of possible worlds.
My images ask a simple question: who decides that good taste must pass through restraint? To look at these images is to accept excess as an aesthetic and political position.
More than a style, it is an invitation to reclaim our right to assumed excess and to the joy it contains.
Biography
Born in Belgium in the late 1960s, I have spent three decades composing with images, first as a graphic designer, then as a studio and architecture photographer. This classical training taught me technique, light and composition.
For more than ten years, I have been communications manager in a socio-professional integration non-profit in Liège, a small city in a small country. Those years opened me to diverse realities: fractured paths, lives judged “not conforming enough” to have their place.
This proximity to exclusion has deeply shaped the way I see the world and create.
Since 2022, artificial intelligence has become for me a space of creative liberation. It allows me to visually build what I defend by conviction: worlds where everyone would have a place, without having to make themselves small or fit into boxes.
Today I work at the intersection of photography, graphic design and generative AI, exploring what I call joyful maximalism: an aesthetic of accumulation, assumed colour and claimed diversity.
My images were not born in a void. They carry a question my professional environment asks me every day: who decides what is legitimate? Who has the right to fully exist without apologising?
My work found an unexpected audience on Instagram (@thierrylechanteur), where more than 411,000 people follow my visual explorations.
Whether captured or generated, I invite you to consider these images as proposals for more hospitable worlds, where difference would be celebrated, not tolerated.
My images are my way of saying: what if we tried something else?
In my artistic work, I respond by creating visual spaces where no one would need discretion in order to be legitimate.
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