In Happy Place, Max Baitinger offers a series of stories around the
search for harmony in a daily life full of absurdities. That he
whether it's about proving to your computer that you're not a robot, or paying a
exorbitantly priced gym membership or dealing with customers
discontented, the world unfolding in this collection is often deceptively pastel.
The character in Happy Place seems to be made of rubber. His legs are long and
flexible twist and transform into arabesques, before becoming rigid
a few pages later in long sticks. Its malleable body echoes the
typography of chapter titles or the slender silhouette of a
cigarette. Showing elasticity and adaptability, our artist
arches in a strange dance: from weariness, he passes to relief,
slumps into his chair, lets himself be tormented by sports machines, obeys
with attention to the requests of his computer. Maxi Baitinguer's drawing is
thus sometimes becomes a pictogram, sometimes marshmallow, coloring Happy's stories
Place of a playful surrealism.
