ARTIST'S BOOKS [2005-2010]
COMME UNE CHORALE DE VOIX DANS LA TÊTE [2010]
Audio Book, 19 min 53 sec (with reading control device)
Text and sound piece for 9 voices, based on binaural recording techniques - a system that allows, with the use of headphones, to reconstruct the three-dimensional space of perception. The sound piece is accompanied with a publication reflecting the narratives patterns of these voices, sometimes blending in almost perfect synchronization, but other times blurring into a confused rumour.
331 QUESTIONS POSÉES PAR D’AUTRES ET AUTANT RÉPONDUES PAR MOI [2009]
Audio book, 331 pages, 31 min 25 sec.
A publication gathers 331 questions asked to the artist by the public, via a request made on the Internet. The soundtrack features the artist's voice answering all the questions, but without any link between the two.
I didn't know what to say. So I asked to be brought up to speak. There was no prescribed rule. You just had to write to me and ask me a question - any question. In exchange, I promised to tell the truth. I didn't expect anything. In fact, I expected everything. I wanted to believe that I was competent enough to answer all these questions. My truth versus the truth: I wanted to quantify modesty, to know who would dare to ask me what, to see how long I would keep playing the game. I received 331 questions, I offered 331 answers. All the questions were filed and archived within a publication: I classified other people's words as I always classified my own. The accompanying soundtrack played each of my answers in a burst: the answers in the same order as the questions, but without a direct link between the two. It was a speech leading to the loss of meaning, explanations that explained nothing at all. It was a voice that needed the experience of the other in order to find its own echo.
LE CIEL À BOUT DE BRAS [2008]
Digital prints on bond paper
14 cm X 25 cm
14 cm X 25 cm
(I've always been afraid of ghosts. Really.) A work that focuses on the relationship between text and image, between photography and printmaking. A deeper understanding of the notion of interference: visual interference, on the one hand, through the staining of the photographic image with lithography. Then narrative interference, the text being offered only in fragments, erased, in a singular relationship with the image.
L’AVEU DE LA DÉFAILLANCE [2007]
Graphite on geofilm
10 cm X 25 cm
10 cm X 25 cm
Or how to relate the loss of the image.
L’INVENTION DU PAYSAGE [2007]
Lithography, inkjet and graphite on paper
65 cm X 100 cm
65 cm X 100 cm
Poetic reflection on the relationship between the body and its environment.
ALPHA BRAVO CHARLIE [2006]
Silkscreen printing on newsprint
12 cm X 30 cm
12 cm X 30 cm
Transcription of a personal text using the NATO phonetic alphabet, where each letter becomes a word.
alpha / bravo / charlie / delta / echo / foxtrot / golf / hotel / india / juliet / kilo / lima / mike / november / oscar / papa / quebec / romeo / sierra / tango / uniform / victor / whiskey / x-ray / yankee / zulu
IL AVAIT L’AIR DE SON NOM D’OISEAU [2006]
Silkscreen printing on Mohawk paper
20 cm X 25 cm
20 cm X 25 cm
A narrative suite created from abandoned images found in a box on a street corner.
MÉMOIRE FICTIVE [2006]
Lithography, screen printing and embossing on Somerset paper
15 cm X 20 cm
15 cm X 20 cm
Reconstruction of memories from old family photographs. Reflection on a memory that is mine without being mine.
SANS TITRE [2005]
Photographs and graphite on Arches paper
60 X 120 cm
60 X 120 cm
Reflection on the unsaid and narrative blurring.
CE QUE L’ON RESSENT AU FOND DE SOI EST RAREMENT DE BON AUGURE [2005]
Digital prints on Arches paper
15 cm X 20 cm
15 cm X 20 cm
Reflection on dividing and image loss.
L’ENVERS DES PAYS LOINTAINS [2005]
Black and white photographs
15 cm X 15 cm
15 cm X 15 cm
The landscape as a poetic journey.
PARTOUT OÙ IL N'Y A JAMAIS MOI IL Y A TOUJOURS TANT D'AUTRES [2005]
Series of silver photographs (black & white and colour)
A series where different realities encounters, where different individualities mix and mingle, without hierarchy.