From raw materials to work of art

Voyage en toute conscience

With the resemblance between the forest and humanity in mind, this series frees itself from the cycle of life and focuses on the persistence of things.

Marg’rit

Characters all in color, shape and movement, opening their heart to the imagination.

Their story is for you to invent ...

Ocarina

… A being travels and leaves a part of itself along the way, this continues to live through others… Like a breath of wind, this voice diffuses and spreads continuing its way, without end, without borders…

L’éclosion

From birth to take off a life runs...

Joys and sorrows forge a being of light.

Experimental artworks and furniture design

I use some of my textures and materials discovered during my research for collaborative work with other designers to create sculptural luminaires.

Artistic philosophy

My Artwork is a long, human dialogue that I materialise in stone, plaster, clay or paper. The conversation is transient, elusive, shifting... which is why I endeavour to give it substance. My Sculptures or Art Installations could well have been anchored, positioned, however the harmony in disequilibrium seems more adapted to the message I wish to share. This is why they float, must be handled, listened to and touched. 

About me

After working for a long time in figurative art, consecrating on the human body, faces, expressions, attitudes; I then turned to deconstruction, refining it to the point of sculpting in a single stroke. Today, what interests me is the Human, its quest for eternity, its need to mark the passage of time, to influence its descendants, its time, its story, its connection with others...

Having lived abroad in countries from Asia to the Middle East, currently in Geneva, I have been nourished by everything that unites human beings, despite varying climes, vegetation and customs. On reflection, being from Marseille, the crossroads of nations, my work could not have taken a path other than that of the universality of Man.

This is why I am inspired by nature and its organic shapes, fleeting, yet eternal. Forms that impose themselves upon us in all simplicity. Yet time drifts over them, day by day, as life influences our humanity, or etches lines into our skin, with differing depths.

I play with these parallels to bring out the fragility of this equilibrium and my work is lengthy human conversations that I materialise in stone, plaster, clay or paper.
The interactions I have with others are fleeting and elusive; which is why I try to give them form. My sculptures and installations could have been stable, posed, however the harmony of being off- balance seems to be more fitting to the message I wish to convey. Hence they float, manipulate, touch and listen to each other...

Ask me more about my artistic journey

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2023 - Entrelacs, exposition en binôme avec l'artiste peintre Marie Thorndahl, Art Gallery Espace Candide, Ferney-Voltaire France.

2022 - Installation "Forêt évanescente", Art Cité, Fontenay-sous-bois France.

2022 - Installation "Chimère" Cloître st Louis Avignon, France.

2015 - Calais together / Art in the jungle, Calais France, parrainé par Ernest Pignon Ernest.

2015 - les 24H de l’Art, Rueil-Malmaison, France.

2015 - Group Art exhibition, Design center Paris, France.

2015 - Souffle de la terre, Croissy, France.

2014 - Exposition du groupe les « artistes de la bastille » Paris, France.

2013 - « Même pas mal » par les Artistes à la Bastille, Paris, France.

2013 - Art squad group, Ethiad Gallery, Abu-Dhabi UAE.

2013 - Watchwomen And Dreamcatcher, Sofitel Abu- Dhabi.

2012 - Art collision , 4 French artists, Art Week, Radisson Royal Dubaï.

2009 - Vision d’un voyage éphémère, Waqif Art Center gallery, Doha Qatar.

Solo exhibitions

2021 - Voyage en toute conscience, L’Orangerie du Château Voltaire, France.

2020 - Marg’rit, Maison du Pays de Voltaire, France.

2017 - Sounds of shades Pour Livre en lumière saison 2017, Ferney-Voltaire, France.

Art fair

2023 - Artmuc with Paris Artspace, Munich Germany.

2022 - Art Montpellier, avec la Galerie Arthalia, France.

2015 - Art Nights, Dubaï DIFC, United Arab Emirates.

Biennale

2023- Art en campagne, Biennale Franco-Suisse, 2ème prix du jury.

2021 - Art en Campagne, Biennale Franco-Suisse, 2eme prix du public.

2017 - Biennale grandeur nature, Domaine des forges, France.

2015 - Biennale Européenne de sculpture, Domaine des forges, France.

Gallery

Glustin Gallery, Paris St Ouen.

Art district Gallery, Beirut.

Francois Fontaine Gallery, Geneva.

I regularly lead artistic workshops for schools or associations

If you are interested, don’t hesitate to ask for my availability

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