artiste
plasticien
Negative bodies
series
2017 - in progress
Negative body #1
2017
concrete, wood, nails
80 x 108 x 15 cm
Negative bodies series turns to the body imprints and the emphasis of the mold as a sculptural object. Here, the idea is to question the link to the society and the impact of "cultural molds" about the individual, the shaping of the human being by the human being, and the drift of uniformity and mental reservations which ensue from it. The process of creation participates itself of this thinking..
Negative body #2
2017
concrete, copper, steel
66,5 x 20 x 12,5 cm
Exchange of self-identities
2017
plaster mixed with sand, steel
22,5 x 23 x 35 cm
Hypocenters
2018
terracotta, fragments, wood
87 x 48 x 24 cm
In Hypocenters, I focused on the antagonism between the desire to belong to a group, a society, a specific culture with the aim of our social integration and our recognition as a fully-fledged person – in this particular case, the ancestral custom of ''giraffes-women'' in Burma – and the revolt of our self ego in front of imperative constraints and suffocation because this choice.
The clay was shaped around a core left in place all the duration of the drying phase, and has in return underwent destructive forces due to the shrinkage of the material.
As well this achieved piece as its many fragments are then baked. Cracks and fragments show the processes at work. They testify about the "weight" of the individual on the collective and about their interrelationship, and question again the place of each one. Which of both does it have to be in the service of the other?
One meter of physical distance #3
2020
wood, nails, acrylic resin
121 x 15,5 x 14,7 cm
One meter of physical distance #2
2020
acrylic resin, fiberglass, wood
125 x 18 x 13 cm
