Yami

Yami is an illustrator and artist. He grew up surrounded by drawing and painting.

Yami looks for new visual languages, drawing as much on the codes of urban art as on classical techniques.

Yami's subject is love, caught in its contradictions. To depict it, he invented his "p'tits démons" (little demons), characters who embody fear and doubt in love, to the point of excess. His works are an outlet for him, a way to release inner tensions.

Yami's demons can be recognised from afar. Small, with a round head topped by two pointed horns, their only face is two vertical slits in place of eyes. They can be seen carrying hearts, clinging to balloons, fishing on a riverbank or painting at an easel. Drawn in flat areas outlined in black, red or white depending on the piece, they slip in numbers into scenes that are not their own, a château park or a romantic meeting under the trees, and change the way they are read.