BIOGRAPHY
I am a self-taught conceptual artist working primarily in expanded painting, researching the extent of cognitive materialism.
With a background in literature and a longstanding engagement with
philosophy and existential thought, my practice explores the relationship
between matter, perception and existence. Combining painting, texture and
mixed media, my work is rooted in the belief that materialisation can generate a bridge for perception when the mind alone, itself at times, cannot.
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EDUCATION
– Baccalauréat Littéraire
– Université du Mirail Toulouse , DEUG Lettres Modernes, 2009
– London College of Communication – University of the Arts London, BA(Hons) of Journalism, 2014
– London College of Communication – University of the Arts London, Postgraduate Degree in Public Relations, 2015
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
My practice developed outside formal Art education, first driven by a lifelong obsession with matter and its understanding.
Almost subsequently, my interest for matter came with the urge to observe the mind’s mechanisms throughout existence.
Whether it be to uncover its limitations or to revel at the beauty of it.
Since I started painting within my own paradigm a few years ago, expanded oil painting became my voice, while exploring conceptual entanglements between mind and matter.
My very first encounter with paint was Watercolour painting, diametrically different from oil one must say. So subtle, so fragile, so poetic… I still hold it very dear to my heart, as it was introduced to me by my beloved grandmother, before I was even able to read or write.
STATEMENT
My artworks were born from a primal impulse to turn to matter when perspective had deserted me.
During a period of profound disheartenment, I became devoid of vision, unable to even imagine myself beyond my own condition.
TREADING WATER is the vision of the place I was in my psyche.
Matter became a space where consciousness had no authority.
It was also a place that I could create in order to become the witness rather than the subject.
I needed to materialise the vision I couldn’t reach.
Displacing myself into the small figure allowed me to witness what I could no longer see for myself.
Like a symbolic vessel that could bypass a broken conscience.
In giving the journey material form, possibility had to be tangible before it became conceivable.
