Creative Approach

My name is Dominique Loukidis, I was born in France where I grew up, then worked in administration and sales for almost twenty years. I now live in Switzerland, where I've reoriented my career towards interior design and collage art. Initially holding a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Management (ISTEC - Paris / France), I finally chose to embrace a more artistic career by also obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Applied Arts (Design et Formations - Nyon / Switzerland).

My work as an interior designer enables me to carry out customer projects in which the functional aspect necessarily rubs shoulders with the aesthetic, in a global and creative approach. And it was through the moodboard, a tool dear to designers (also known as a mood board, if applied to interior architecture), that my passion for collage was born.

Indeed, it's thanks to manual photomontage that I've been able to measure the transformative potential of images when assembled to form a new, imaginary universe, thanks to free, strong compositions. It's a process that unleashes creativity: each collected image loses its original identity to tell a new story when assembled with others.

Encouraged by my entourage to present my first paintings, I was lucky enough to quickly gain access to online galleries and marketplaces (Swiss artists, Art Majeur, Art Boxy, Circle Foundation for the Arts, then more recently Singulart), as well as to take part in exhibitions in Switzerland and other countries (Swiss Art Expo in Zurich, 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions, Venice, Bologna, Lecce, New York). As of 2022, I have also created my own website, with the aim of presenting my paintings, explaining my world and my artistic approach, and reaching a wider audience.

Over time, I've come to understand that art should be accessible to all, because whatever its means of expression (painting, drawing, sculpture, music etc.), it is above all a matter of sensitivity: that of the artist, on the one hand, who shows his vision of things using his own «vocabulary», and that of the public, on the other, who may simply be touched by this vision, sometimes far removed from codes and academies.

In this sense, artistic collage allows me to capture the aesthetics of an image, to blend it into a different concept and obtain surreal combinations, but also to guide the viewer into dreamlike, surprising and unexpected atmospheres in which humor also finds its place.

Most of my compositions are intended to be light, to play with the viewer's perception while inviting him or her to reflect. Anachronisms, which are often present in my work, add to this lightness and are there to serve the concept. For the absurd dimension, beyond aesthetic research, is an essential component that I particularly like to bring to the fore (notably drawn from and inspired by the Surrealist and Dada movements).

I find all artistic approaches interesting, and I consider them above all from an emotional point of view, through what they tell me. So my «book of influences» is very eclectic. And every exhibition I visit or art book I open is a potential source of inspiration.

On page 1 of this book, if it existed, we'd find Raoul Dufy and his colorful palette, then close behind him Gustav Klimt for his magnificently chiseled painting, Edward Hopper for his surprising framings, René Magritte for his surrealist subjects, Banksy and his stencils full of humor and poetry.... But the book is over 500 pages long, and all I have to do is turn the pages and let myself be carried away...