Born in France, lives and works between Toulouse, France, Berlin, Germany and Seoul, Korea
Artist’s statement
Our existence is absurd. Whatever the convictions fueling our need for creation may be, the most relevant questions will always be the unanswered ones. How amusing to see how such a depressing idea never prevented us from agitating ourselves, on the contrary, the history of mankind is a flight forward revealing of meanings. As if that was not enough, the greater part of the world we are living in is not of our making, neither are the words nor the ideas or the objects we use. We can only be fascinated by the energy we deploy and the seriousness with which we approach the reality. Humans for sure are beautiful Don Quixotes, more or less lucid, more or less flamboyant.
My work tends to reveal that absurdity, to celebrate it, while searching what in the void peripheries could make sense, or, a minima, how do we proceed to create meaning. My main practice is drawing. Just like maps, diagrams or spreadsheets, drawings seduce us for their ability to give us the satisfaction of meaning. But just like topographic surveys, a map, like a drawing can’t be right, always incomplete, subjective and subject to interpretation. Still, once again, what is more serious than a cadastral map? The other part of my practice is a vast hybrid, firing of all wood. Installations, happenings, town planning or jugaad, the very nature of all these practices is to be found in context, context as a point of stability, as a referral in the void, a respectful approach of the world. My practice is this never ending switch between experiences and reports, mimicking our never ending struggle with mystery.
