Transforming, assembling and manipulating colors, materials and shapes has been natural to me since childhood, and I continue to explore this language.
My approach is sensitive, focused on the living, the intangible, the unspeakable and memory. As a result, the following elements are particularly present in my work:
- Nature and all its components: waves, breath, movement, light, energies, vibrations, silences...
- Interrelations and their "modes of transport": thread, weaving, words, music, genealogy, phylogeny, myths, symbols... and so many other forms of connection.
Body is born of formlessness ("To paint is to give a face to that which has none", said Beckett).
Creating enables me to grasp the essence of the living in all its imperceptible content, and to give it substance.
In the beginning, it's about letting buried elements emerge. These are clues, traces, testimonies. Like threads to be pulled.
Past the mists, there's the void, dots, lines or suspended words.
Underneath, there's the path, the whirlpool and the vault. And further still, the sap, the humus, the original matter, the core and the source.
To guide this wandering, the line becomes the breath, the color the energy, the shape the reference point. A story is composed, and I witness it myself, accompanying the movement.
The figure emerges from a purely abstract magma. The body, be it human, vegetable, animal or mineral, is invited into its function as container and image-witness. It is part of a landscape-atmosphere, and probably represents what its deepest essence has to say.
Memory of form and body-memory, residue, dross, buried words and unspoken words, emancipate themselves from the veils to reveal themselves in a new light.
