"The Cyclist" is a painting that shows a curvaceous figure with exaggerated arms and legs on a bicycle in what the artist describes as a jungle. In the left and right background, two cars appear, 'planted' vertically, as if they were buried in the ground. The work raises questions. What are these cars doing here? Should we prefer bicycles to cars? Is this a post-car or post-climate-crisis world? Laborde reveals none of this. There's an air of the city about this painting, a definite human presence in the background, and yet it's less victorious than we might expect.
"Through this painting, I don't want to be associated with such a binary idea as 'cars are bad', that's not the root of the problem," says Anton Laborde.