Approach

My pictorial research questions and explores the physical and mental transformation that human beings undergo on a daily basis. How do our bodies react to emotion and energy? How do they express empathy, courage, desire? How do the rhythms and shapes of human trials, realizations and interpersonal exchanges shape our flesh, our vital organs and our brains?

On the lookout for a balance of power between abstraction and figuration, I use acrylics and their mediums in a gestural style driven by rhythm and music. These movements allow me to develop textures that make visible the magnetic fields created by human relationships. Music leads me to create a structured set of intentionally ambiguous forms. So their range of interpretation goes beyond the descriptive image.

At first, on the blank surface, I write an automatic script in the form of dialogues about human behavior. These texts, which have been necessary to my creative process since 2010, are spontaneous, written without any time for reflection to encourage the connection with my unconscious as much as possible. Since the sentences are more or less hidden by the painting, we can read a few words here and there, suggesting possible ways of interpreting the work.

Despite a denunciatory statement about our lack of transparency, our blindness to ourselves and the conflicts that ensue, my painting is a mediation that brings to light the energetic complexity experienced by human beings, both in their inner selves and in the world around them.

Theme: inner strength

It’s easy to talk about the difficulties that oppress us in the 21st century because they’re so hard to live with: anxiety, depression, gender inequality, racism, global warming. We have to talk about it, we have to change things and build peace in this chaos.

We don’t talk much about love. It’s not easy to tell someone how great they are. We don’t emphasize enough the courage we need today to get through the 21st century.

In my work, I express the force of life. How can we transcend our difficulties to bring out our inner strength and keep on fighting? I dissect the faces and bodies of my characters to reveal the luminous path of their audacity.

Over the past century, our collective consciousness has evolved considerably, thanks in part to the development of social justice, psychology and philosophy. We reap the rewards of our actions more quickly over the course of our lives. And just as quickly, there are consequences; think of the illicit behavior of individuals or governments around the world being revealed and criticized more openly than ever before.

This means that governments can, and sometimes must, reorient their policies, and that we, as individuals, must question our values in the light of our experiences, our relationships with the people around us, our social choices and our relationship with the planet.

Despite this, real social change is slow, and the evolution of our personal consciousness is veiled by a timid, even wilful blindness.

One of the areas in which we have the most power is in consolidating the inner strength that would enable us to support real repositioning of our values. What do we do with this power?

Theme: overcoming conflict