2026 Kennedy Prize Catalogue

30 | Translucence | Marcel Desbiens | $4000 | Oil on canvas, layered translucent glazes capturing water’s fluid motion.

My painting explores water not as a place but as a state of becoming, light fracturing through movement, color refusing to settle. Bands of green, red, and amber trace a passage rather than a scene. Translucence is a meditation on impermanence: beauty caught mid-transformation, never quite fixed, never quite still.