Architecture of Human Ties examines the invisible systems that organize how we move, relate, and perceive. Working in oil paint and oil pastel, Duval constructs fragmented spaces where organic forms—traces of human presence, gestures, and flows—intersect with rigid, architectural structures. These elements exist in tension, revealing reality as something continuously shaped through the friction between lived experience and imposed frameworks.

Rather than depicting stable environments, the works operate as shifting fields where boundaries blur and hierarchies destabilize. Organic forms map the circulation of bodies and emotions through constructed systems, tracing how individuals inhabit, resist, and transform them. What appears solid becomes porous; what seems fixed reveals itself as contingent.

The series positions society as an architecture of perspectives—layered, unstable, and often unseen—where power, order, and belonging are embedded within spatial and psychological structures. Through partial visibility and intentional obstruction, Duval invites viewers to question not only what they see, but how reality itself is constructed, negotiated, and continuously in flux.

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