Vues d’atelier, ASBL l’Accroche, 2023
My images are the result of a process, tamed like a synthesis of feelings, a will to explore a certain tangibility in the face of the ineffable, which invites me to delve into a fantasized subjectivity, within the intimacy of a particular relationship to the world. Painting, in particular, serves a quest for emotion, drama, freedom, and the powerful, untamed forces of nature, balancing delicately between the grandiose and the unstable. The outcome is rarely predictable: a navigation through accidents, upon which one can rely.
I remain attentive to what the medium itself can convey; the notion of direction is not imposed but continuously constructed. In this desire to “tell a story” and in wandering as a terrain for gathering, I draw useful resources for the process during my expeditions: stranded objects, minerals for pigment making, photographic imprints, and above all, sensations that leave the most vivid traces. Fascinated by the immersive potential offered by materials, colors, and objects, the practice of exhibition and a clear interest in spatial arrangement gradually lead me to experiment with ways of connecting different media.
Also attentive to the concerns of contemporary performance and the monumentality of certain artistic installations, the permeability of my research to these practices forms a driving line of reflection. I thus hope to one day approach what, as German Romanticism suggests, aspires to a Gesamtkunstwerk—a total work of art that immerses the viewer in a comprehensive sensory experience.
Considering artistic language as a vector of transmission and the conveyance of ideas, and motivated by a desire to carefully present works to audiences, curatorial research and exhibition mediation constitute aspects of my work that develop alongside studio practice. Passionate about creating resonance between works, I also work, on the periphery of my research, as an exhibition technician for various projects or institutions. I maintain a sensitivity to these practices as a form of ongoing investigation, a natural extension of human experience, and, as Rilke reminded us, as evidence that a work bears a certain substance born of necessity. The true fulfillment does not lie in completion, but in the continual tension of approaching it.
Vue d’atelier, La Vallée, 2024
Vue d’atelier, Anderlecht, 2026