Studying in the studios of Jean-Michel Alberola and Paul-Armand Gette in the national fine arts school in Paris in the beginning of the 1990’s, in the studios of Jeff Wall, Ken Lum and Mark Lewis in Vancouver in 1993, assisting the navajo sandpainter Joe Ben Jr in Arizona and New Mexico in 1996, travelling until 2000, working as a videast in a workshop in the prison of La Santé in Paris from 2002 to 2005, teaching in the fine arts school in Liege in Belgium today, my way is paved by essential encounters with some beings aimed at different skylines.
Adventures then sediments in my artistic doing, these meetings taught me how to live it, blazing the trail of my plastic and videographic experiences.
The countdown of the existence is clearly anchored in my creations for almost ten years, running on the path of my life with the counsciousness of its duration, in an urgence lived freely, unsubmitted to the idea of a carrer in a market.
In my use of videographic tools I’ve chosen to observe, to contemplate and to watch inside the proof of the loss of
the present time.
By focusing on the run of the instants in every space, in every filmed item, by watching and showing life until a meant death, from the while to the white, my realizations – films and installations – are close to a ritual depicting an impossible mourning, from their conception to their presentation.
Developed and recured as some attempts to get used to the fact of living and dying at the same time, they play and replay over and over again the ever passing instants.
From the living being, ruled by a device featured in the center of the screen, from the time of existing in a time-code,
in the countdown of the length of a film, from the inescapable fade of a tattoo I’m giving faces, objects, landscapes
to re-guard in their inevitable achievement at the capture of their tracks.
I’m looking beyond the recording of some dead instants through these documents, setting the disorder facing some filmed images in their apparent temporal suspension, like relics in motion, and enabling to appear the merciless beauty of a path out of any control.