My work is about dissociation, about our relationship with a body that disgusts us, that we reject, that we never quite manage to experience, that we struggle against, that we drag behind us and about its memory, which we find hard to embody. I believe the feeling I’m trying to work on is the one of agony described by Emil Cioran in the book “on the heights of Despair”. I intend to work on the moment where one’s life crumbles and falls apart. To deal with those subjects, I model different materials which, for me, are allegories of this morbidly decaying body and its decomposition in a space that we never fully grasp. I like to add a performative dimension to my work, to represent the artifices we adorn ourselves with as an attempt to inhabit this body and inscribe ourselves back into the world. This allows me to reflect on disaster, authenticity, identity, the one of this disconnected body without substance perhaps? and the decorations we put on it to help us bear it. How do we put up with the horrible reality? Ultimately, my work talks about struggling. My answer is kitsch.

I’m fascinated by horror scenarios and work on an unpolished body to counter the «male gaze» around a female-presenting body. I’m constantly looking for a balance between the atrocious and the seductive to represent a fantasized tragedy. I work with what I call «phantasmagorical landscapes» to dive in and pour this layer into the scenarios I’m depicting, to romanticize them.

To talk about this untamable body, I immerse myself in heterotopias in the sense of Foucault. In general, I’m fascinated by the metro and the wandering of all these uninhabited, inattentive bodies, where consciousness doesn’t play. Generally speaking, I’m interested in public places, to interrupt them, to burst in, in the open air, on a building site...