By the Lake
Au Bord Du Lac
A return to the picnic setting favoured by French painters such as Seurat and Manet more than a century ago but long since passed into postcard pop. Using optical manipulation and subtle colour tones, Bokanowski liquifies the scene into a gently intoxicated interplay of light, shape and movement, evoking the slight hallucinatory strangeness of a long aprés-midi.