In ancient mythology, giants were born of Gaia, the Earth, as avengers of the Titans imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus, the deepest abyss of the underworld. They are beings of excess—creatures of raw instinct, unrestrained and colossal, embodying the primal forces that humanity must confront to evolve. Valoti’s Les Géants is a powerful artistic meditation on this eternal struggle. Through a series of 22 ink and acrylic paintings on 280g paper, created in 2008, the artist explores the mythological and symbolic weight of giants as entities both terrifying and necessary. With wild, thick hair and massive limbs, these figures exude an almost prehistoric force, reminiscent of ancient reptiles that once…