Artist Statement

I question the human desire to enclose, to contain, and to deny our own emotional nature. My work seeks to reveal the paradox between our desire for freedom and our tendency to ignore our responsibility toward the environment, humanity, and ourselves.

My practice takes shape through photography, sculpture, installation, glass, wood, metal, and found objects. It is concerned with the tensions between fragility and resistance, isolation and openness, inner world and exterior landscape.

During the first fifteen years of my career, I created figurative works in acrylic painting and large-scale drawing. Around the 2000s, my work shifted toward abstraction and a more intuitive approach to creation. In the series Enveloppé d’une fragilité humaine / Wrapped in Human Frailty, I allowed myself to be guided by a more instinctive process, without trying to control everything. Like a visual journal, gesture became the origin of the image and revealed inner states.

Photography then became a way to extend this research. It allows me to observe landscapes, atmospheres, fragments, and details that often escape notice. I am interested both in the large presences of the land and in almost invisible microcosms. In my photographic series, the image becomes a place of slow attention, where matter, light, and perception transform reality.

My sculptures often arise from play, experimentation, and the encounter between materials. I use wood, metal, glass, and found objects to bring textures and sometimes opposing forms into dialogue: the angular and the fluid, the industrial and the organic, hardness and transparency. These contrasts create tensions that can invite intimacy, introspection, or a sensation of enclosure.

For several years, my visual language has come closer to expressing the confinement of human fulfillment, the condition of our forests and the natural world, and an inner journey shaped by society and an environment in crisis. In installations such as Ego sentio, ergo sum, Internum fortitudinem, and Continuum, walls entirely covered in black become spaces of isolation. They confront the public with a physical and psychological experience of constraint, while allowing the possibility of an opening to appear.

Through these works, I am less interested in imposing an answer than in creating a space for looking. My work invites viewers to slow down, to recognize our vulnerability, and to question the way we inhabit the world, our relationship to others, and our own inner lives.