E.R. PART II
I ponder on those moments where everything shifts, between hope and disillusion. These moments seem to have multiplied in a world that appears to me in a constant state of instability, where everything accelerates, where any news item is relayed on a large scale by social media.
The feeling of serenity before the tipping point comforts me. I would like to freeze it, but it seems so fragile to me that I am ultimately overwhelmed by the fear of losing it. This then develops within me a sense of emptiness, a sensation of falling, a form of determinism, mixed with a desire to start all over again, to rebuild, not to give up. I seek to transcribe and express these feelings.
Three notions henceforth manifest in my work: my relationship with temporality, which sometimes evokes urgency or a cry, my relationship with space, more precisely the scale used, and finally, this feeling of loss between hope and fate, facing a state of affairs. What interests me is the mental process that leads a person to accept a situation that could lead to their downfall, a loss of freedom, or a loss of values.
An image, like a very precise flash, mostly arising from an encounter or current events, constitutes my raw material. I transcribe it and immediately shape it from multiple angles of interpretation. The objective, always the same, targets a scene where codes and usual conventions are diverted by playing with mediums, materials, and references to establish a new perception.
The materials used, whether they are cold or fragile (marble, metal, glass), and the symbols allow a necessary distancing for reflection and questioning that I wish to share: is it a belief that we apply when we think we live in peace? Is it a representation or a reality? The ambiguity raised is also found in my works through a blend of thoughts and references.
These works reinforce the idea that it takes very little to overturn the balance of a region and make way for untold tragedies. What our parents passed down to us, what they sometimes fought for, seems to us as taken for granted, even innate after more than half a century without war. Yet, every day seems like a new mutation: an effort for peace in one part of the world, then a rush into oblivion in another. All this against a backdrop of social, economic, and technological progress that ultimately leaves me perplexed about the real prospects for dialogue, social and spiritual enrichment, respect, and freedom.
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