Description

It is the rejection of a dialectical vision that would synthesise under a uniting common ground, in the name of a false search for social equality and coherence; and the clear acceptance, valorisation and embrace of antinomic realities whether in the social public sphere or within oneself that drives my work and my mixed media practice.

The possibility of this coexistence of disparate elements while preserving their essence is at the core of recent works that question the cohabitation of constructed and natural spaces and the possible parallels with our constructed social behaviour within a context that aims to deliberately integrate them both.

In Locked Outside VI, series of images and video of La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the transformation of the original photographic or video image is the result of a computer generated binary translation between a masked element's name and a plain color, which artificiality expresses the perversion of the natural.
The emphasised natural images - shadows and reflections - lure the attention from the occurring transformation when at the same time emphasize, distort or reveal the specificities of each medium and suggests the original context to the viewer.

In the video Terra Nullius, the constructed is defined as a space of exclusion, spectacle and passive self inflicted social influence whereas the natural is envisaged as a state of balance where different social identities are not denatured. The specific windows of the space, intermittently being frames, mirrors or simple partitions, are part of a triangular relationship with the characters and the viewers where the nature and implications of the act of looking and being looked at shift.