The language  of abstraction in painting has been time and again rethought, reconstructed and revitalized,insofar, there remains little room for innovation in the vast field of nonrepresentation. The work of Gabriel Dubois however, mirrors certain contemporary phenomena with a intelligent sense of juxtaposition. 

The visual world we experience today carries the weight of modern industrialization, along with it a whole new apparatus of the “networked society”. Medial interference has become a common phenomena through digital and analog fragmentation: screens of animated information, virtual landscapes, composite photography and video, televised spectacle and age old print media. The disjointed amalgamation of signs and signifiers, in the form of still, moving and sometimes impossible imagery, has become commonplace in our understanding of contemporary visualization. For those living in urban centers there exists an exponential growth of such phenomena, all messages being compressed within the visual space which is available. Especially for those living within an urban culture where graffiti and street art is practised, there exists an even more fragmented space where those practising individuals proliferate their own visual codes i.e. extensions of their ego that embark a discourse with their surroundings. These fragments of human expression exist as a reaction against the commercial and bureaucratic landscape of signs therein competing for a moment of one’s attention.

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