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Series "Derailed" For these Series, I use the experimental process of cyanotype and natural dyes as it forces me to slow down and the result is beyond my control. I am interested in the concept of "Derailment", a sense of being forced or pulled "off course". My work is an improvisation around grids as well as hidden family migration and personal stories. Each art piece is a temporary piece towards a new creation. With the the wandering figures, I want to create a shadowy anchor of presence in spaces of uncertainty and I invite the viewer to reflect on the challenge of holding attention.

Series "Derailed"
Series "Constructing life" and "Interferences" I started using the cyanotypes prints to build 3D pieces of work. Objects can be rearranged endlessly and the viewer is invited to play with them in an interactive way. I reckon we all need to play. "Plus tard, ca sera trop tard. Notre vie c'est maintenant". Jacques Prevert

Series "Constructing life" and "Interferences"
Series "Alone in the city" Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. It is one of the first form of photography favoured by Anna Atkins. Blue is my favourite colour and I like the experimental side of using found objects or past drawing and using them as a negative and then create a physical print with a sun exposure. It means I need to collect during my walks, build a little scene on paper and observe the weather to work out the exposure time and maybe the impossibility of doing a print in that day. The experimental side of it is exciting.

Series "Alone in the city"
Mixed media, encaustic,oils While I have a playful and experimental approach, daily plant collections and observation of the nature in the forest have a grounding rhythm. My work is where these two worlds merge. I incorporate mixed media, leaves, bark and found objects in textured pieces. Following my intuition, I alternate quickly between building up layers, destroying part of the work before starting to repair it. As a result, the work goes through a metamorphosis in form and medium. The process, movements and the experimentation are as important as the final result and will leave some traces in the marks.

Mixed media, encaustic,oils
Series "Big bang in my hand" Lot of my work is often a manifestation of how I see the world and is originating from my interest in quick change, lethal energy, colours and chaos. I have been faced with diseases in my close circle and sees the world as a mixture of beauty and threatening deadly organisms.

Series "Big bang in my hand"
Series Photograms These images are photograms, which is an old photographic processes. It was created on the glass in the darkroom using objects, fabric and domestic fluids, then developed in the darkroom and scanned, then printed on fine art paper. After working with very colourful scenes, I am now trying to convey a simplified impression in the darkroom in a monochrome and supernatural style. My aim is to create something primordial and a feeling of disturbance and uncertainty in the viewer and challenge his relationship with our unpredictable world. I used to be an impulsive and playful person but have been confronted twice to serious diseases in my close family. That led me to question my perception of our future and my ambiguous relationship with the nature, lethal energy and chaos. I want to use art to deal with the thin line between beauty and evil, health and death, nature, purity and microbes and I use abstraction in photography to reflect the link between these concepts. As I cannot make sense of the world, it helps me to play to play with materials, go back to the core and follow my intuition. I tackle my fear by looking directly at our dangerous world and become an alchemist.

Series Photograms
Series "Elements and water" Water is a beautiful and mysterious fluid that we encounter all around us. It is the first element I started to observe before the earth.

Series "Elements and water"
Series "Keep out: les fleurs du mal" This project is part of the Keep out series. It relates to the transience of organic and inorganic substances together shot in close up. The series are a dozen of images which in surface are difficult to understand. If you look at them a bit more closely, it feels organic and primordial. My intention was to create a feeling of disturbance and uncertainty knowing that the subject matter was going to disappear in a matter of minute. I held onto something that I know would never exist again. Randomness and experimentation are keys in my work.

Series "Keep out: les fleurs du mal"

 

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