Several projects
« I collect images to invent another memory for them . »
Media : Drawing , Photography , Artist Book
Themes : Body , Transmission & Heritage , Memory & Disappearance
I like telling myself stories. I tell them to myself first. I make connections, create links, and then leave it to the viewer to construct their own. Our stories may meet, or they may head in completely different directions. I am not trying to guide the other person’s thinking here, but rather to set it free.
I work through displacement. I come across a body; it speaks to me within its original context. I remove it from that context, completely detaching it from where it came from. I try to forget it for a few days, sometimes a few weeks. Then I look at it with fresh eyes and give it a new story. Or the opposite happens: its original story becomes the material from which I construct my own.
I begin with found photographs: portraits, figures, family photographs, already charged with layers of previous experiences. I try to strip them of these associations, making them more impersonal and universal. I question these now-anonymous figures by placing and displacing them within different spaces, each conceived as a field of meaning.
Family Album explores family, motherhood, and reproduction. It questions the representation of the heteronormative family structure within a patriarchal society: the place of the mother, the father, and the child. These questions have occupied an increasingly important place in my work since I became pregnant with my first child — and they continue to do so.
Works in the series
L’oeuf sacré (2024)
Painting on wooden egg
Alice à l’heure de l’éclipse (2021)
Watercolour on paper, 50 × 65 cm
“She remained like this, her eyes closed, almost believing herself to be in Wonderland, while knowing full well that all she had to do was open them to return to dull reality.”
— Lewis Carroll
“She remained like this, her eyes closed, almost believing herself to be in Wonderland, while knowing full well that all she had to do was open them to return to dull reality.”
— Lewis Carroll
Anthropologie du sacré (2020)
Drawing, watercolour and painting on paper, 59 × 84 cm
This diptych explores the taboo surrounding the death of young children and the place of parents within such a tragedy. It inhabits the space-time that can exist between falling asleep and death.
The hidden mother (2020)
Coloured pencil and wash on paper
Manifeste (2019)
Short story published in Lab 619, No. 10
Mère nature (2019)
Mixed media on paper, 80 × 80 cm
Sans histoires (2018)
Mixed media on canvas, 100 × 100 cm and 40 × 40 cm (×4)
Famille recomposée (2018)
Wash and gouache on paper
Manifeste (2017)
Three artist’s books, wash and watercolour on Arches paper
Three artist’s notebooks: the father, the mother, and the child. A Holy Trinity — created just after I gave birth to my first child, a boy.
L'adoration de l'œuf mystique (2017)
17 drawings, Indian ink and gouache on paper
A reinterpretation of the altarpiece The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. In the beginning, an RGB of love. In the beginning, a matrix. The chicken or the egg? A or C? A + B = C.
They all eventually meet again at a banquet — roasted, stewed, or made into an omelette.
29 ans passés (2014)
Acrylic on canvas, 200 × 200 cm
Regard caché (2014)
Mixed media on canvas
L’homme sans tête (2013)
Mixed media on canvas
Crève la dalle- Pot au feu (2013)
Mixed media on canvas
Fig 1 & 2 (2010)
Mixed media on paper
Mediums:
Drawing, mixed media, printmaking, artist’s books, painting, gouache.
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