On the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at the Abbaye-de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue in the South of France in 2023, "Johan Creten presented fourteen new panels in gilded ceramic, featuring abstract and repetitive motifs - chevrons, curves, quatrefwoils and pearls. These bas-reliefs, with their unfailing enigmatic power, conjure a unique beauty that is the formula for mystery itself". - Colin Lemoine