ABOUT
My work is an attempt
to cede control to the beauty of the unknown.
Modeling Time – its illusion.
Living moments, sealed in a form.
Writing Fire.
Beyond the flames, the quality of a silence,
which thickens, becomes consistency…
My hands work to elaborate what I do not know.
They don’t know where they are going but they are heading there nonetheless…
I try not to object to it.
…The immensity of the sky. The earth rested during the winter, exposed to frost and rain… I collect it. Cracked surface, dark and light ochres, speckled with the residue of decomposing leaves, crevices at the bottom from which one could read the future… The gaze slides, caught: falls are often the beginning of great adventures.
Moved by this tension of the unknown on which everything now rests, I carry this clay treasure to the workshop. A line drawn by time, shallow, calls for and thrust in the hand. The movement is launched… Upon contact, the energy of the clay invites you to travel, the scales of dimensions suddenly merge. A fold becomes a mount, a rise becomes a nose. What barely takes shape becomes disfigured… Light nourishes its shadows.
And this light indicates the path… Fruit of this exhalation, of this mineral communion, of its beyonds in the crucible which germinate, slowly, all the possibilities, my work moves in interior transformation, the blood which animates me is of the same iron that these clays, millions, billions of years depend on us and – time no longer exists…
LANDMARKS
Born March 21, 1978, in Nantes.
1996 / 2016: experiments and travels in Audiovisual, Theater and Cinema.
2017: meeting with clay.
2018: first modelings, sculptures, self-taught, in a troglodyte cellar, in Dieulefit (Drôme).
2019 / 2023: Construction of a high temperature wood kiln (1000-1300°C), development of enamels and firing of the pieces.
May 2-21, 2023: First personal exhibition, by the European Center of Conques (Aveyron).
January 2024: end of “Cycle 1″… Start of “Cycle 2”.
ABOUT
My work is an attempt
to cede control to the beauty of the unknown.
Modeling Time – its illusion.
Living moments, sealed in a form.
Writing Fire.
Beyond the flames, the quality of a silence,
which thickens, becomes consistency…
My hands work to elaborate what I do not know.
They don’t know where they are going but they are heading there nonetheless…
I try not to object to it.
…The immensity of the sky. The earth rested during the winter, exposed to frost and rain… I collect it. Cracked surface, dark and light ochres, speckled with the residue of decomposing leaves, crevices at the bottom from which one could read the future… The gaze slides, caught: falls are often the beginning of great adventures.
Moved by this tension of the unknown on which everything now rests, I carry this clay treasure to the workshop. A line drawn by time, shallow, calls for and thrust in the hand. The movement is launched… Upon contact, the energy of the clay invites you to travel, the scales of dimensions suddenly merge. A fold becomes a mount, a rise becomes a nose. What barely takes shape becomes disfigured… Light nourishes its shadows.
And this light indicates the path… Fruit of this exhalation, of this mineral communion, of its beyonds in the crucible which germinate, slowly, all the possibilities, my work moves in interior transformation, the blood which animates me is of the same iron that these clays, millions, billions of years depend on us and – time no longer exists…
LANDMARKS
Born March 21, 1978, in Nantes.
1996 / 2016: experiments and travels in Audiovisual, Theater and Cinema.
2017: meeting with clay.
2018: first modelings, sculptures, self-taught, in a troglodyte cellar, in Dieulefit (Drôme).
2019 / 2023: Construction of a high temperature wood kiln (1000-1300°C), development of enamels and firing of the pieces.
May 2-21, 2023: First personal exhibition, by the European Center of Conques (Aveyron).
January 2024: end of “Cycle 1″… Start of “Cycle 2”.
ABOUT
My work is an attempt
to cede control to the beauty of the unknown.
Modeling Time – its illusion.
Living moments, sealed in a form.
Writing Fire.
Beyond the flames, the quality of a silence,
which thickens, becomes consistency…
My hands work to elaborate what I do not know.
They don’t know where they are going but they are heading there nonetheless…
I try not to object to it.
…The immensity of the sky. The earth rested during the winter, exposed to frost and rain… I collect it. Cracked surface, dark and light ochres, speckled with the residue of decomposing leaves, crevices at the bottom from which one could read the future… The gaze slides, caught: falls are often the beginning of great adventures.
Moved by this tension of the unknown on which everything now rests, I carry this clay treasure to the workshop. A line drawn by time, shallow, calls for and thrust in the hand. The movement is launched… Upon contact, the energy of the clay invites you to travel, the scales of dimensions suddenly merge. A fold becomes a mount, a rise becomes a nose. What barely takes shape becomes disfigured… Light nourishes its shadows.
And this light indicates the path… Fruit of this exhalation, of this mineral communion, of its beyonds in the crucible which germinate, slowly, all the possibilities, my work moves in interior transformation, the blood which animates me is of the same iron that these clays, millions, billions of years depend on us and – time no longer exists…
LANDMARKS
Born March 21, 1978, in Nantes.
1996 / 2016: experiments and travels in Audiovisual, Theater and Cinema.
2017: meeting with clay.
2018: first modelings, sculptures, self-taught, in a troglodyte cellar, in Dieulefit (Drôme).
2019 / 2023: Construction of a high temperature wood kiln (1000-1300°C), development of enamels and firing of the pieces.
May 2-21, 2023: First personal exhibition, by the European Center of Conques (Aveyron).
January 2024: end of “Cycle 1″… Start of “Cycle 2”.