ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Médiathèque Elsa Triolet, Villejuif

From 26 September to 22 December 2023

 

This ever-changing portrait of the city of Villejuif is made with salvaged materials. I work daily on a table in the library in dialogue with residents. Every Saturday, I draw visitors' portraits in profile. This repertoire of silhouettes is hybridised with construction site pictograms (scaffolding, cranes, etc). Phase two will see me look at the virtual lives of the people of Villejuif…

EMPTY BOOKCASE COMMISSION

Delivered August 2023

Six paintings for a Paris apartment

acrylic on linen

35 x 27 cm

NUIT BLANCHE, 2023

LOST CIVILIZATION

Place Oscar Niemeyer

Métro Villejuif - Léo-Lagrange

Saturday June 3, 2023

6pm – 12.30am

 

The installation is based on a fictional archeological dig that revealed a lost civilization. 35 one-eyed portraits are the only surviving relics of a society that failed to adapt to its era. The heads are presented on recycled road signs and laid on the ground, as if marking the spot where each artifact was found.

LATEST BOOKLET

MAY 1st

Capital, the masses and the precautions taken... (in French)

POSTER CAMPAIGN

in the streets of Karlsruhe

Stiftung CCFA Karlsruhe

March 21 - April 4 2023

Bicycle tour of sites on March 22

 

Created for the French language week (Semaine de la francophonie) the project Collections Francophones contributes to the current debate on the return of art treasures of colonial origin in our museums. The  posters represent standard museum artifacts, some of them problematic, on display in Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and France. Morocco, a former French "protectorate", is shown as a counterpoint to the Western hegemonic narrative. Made especially for Karlsruhe, these posters are based on the projects "Museums of the World" (2010 - 2015) and "Disturbing Specimens" (ongoing). The presentation at the CCFA was followed by a bike tour of some of the sites.

FRAC PICARDIE

PING-PONG, 2/12 - 4/12/2022

Participation in Ping-Pong, the mini micro-publishing fair.

Round table on Sunday December 4th at 4pm. With Eric Le Brun from Light Motiv Editions and Quentin Pruvost, photographer recently published by Light Motiv, as well as Dominique de Bier from Friville Editions and Heidi Wood to present Tour du monde en transition published in 2022 by Friville Editions. Chaired by Anne Lacoste and Pascal Neveux

GROUP SHOW “ET VLAN”

Galerie Haut du Pavé, Paris

September 2 - 4, 2022

Organized by friville éditions

Including signature of the book

"Tour du monde en transition"

With Charlotte Puertas, Agathe Schneider, Thomas Maestro, Baptiste Roux

NEW BOOK

Touring a World in Transition

The artist book Tour du monde en transition has arrived. It covers 10 years of work reconfigured in light of my narrative turn. Chapters documenting projects alternate with micro-narratives made up of different types of image and text. It is divided into three sections: contemporary experience, museums and heritage and the urban environment.

 

256 pages

texts by Julie Crenn and Heidi Wood

éditions friville

NFT COLLECTION

E-CHIMERAS

The collection E-chimeras has been launched on the objkt.com platform. The 12 NFTs are hybrids born of the world of online shopping. Click on the website link to consult.

“PICTOGRAMS AND ANECDOTES” LECTURE

25/11/21, MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS, ROUEN

 

An invitation by Tania Vladova to accompany the exhibition Display Home at the Hus – ESADHaR.

 

For a long time, my work was about reducing things to their essence: I decant the spirit of down-at-heel places into pictograms. Then I conduct pseudo tourist campaigns to promote these unlikely destinations. One day, I asked myself about the ideological implications of my work and suddenly, it became urgent to rethink the whole undertaking.

 

This lecture includes both pictures and stories to describe an ongoing metamorphosis.