One of the main axes of my research is a questioning of creation after the representation era. I am deeply involved in computer inquiries as a tool and a specific field for my art experimentations. LUNA’S FLOW is a great opportunity to develop and share my new approach of art at the beginning of the XXIst century. Since some years, I develop a technique of print on vinyl fabric. Computer is for me a tool and a wonderful space without limits. I like to explore new possibilities of drawing to find new shapes and new modes of assembling colors. It is also a non-filtered reality or simulacrum that I would like to offer to the MEDIA CITY project. I mean that the scientific and imagination axes of our mind are not separated for me, and virtuality is already everywhere. As Gilles Deleuze put it, “Every perception is hallucinatory because perception has no object” (“Toute perception est hallucinatoire parce que la perception n’a pas d’objet”.) In my work, the first glance could be the right one, but is always slightly disturbed by the experimentation. My works need experimentation. For me, the look and imagination are spiritual and physical. It is this paradox of art that I want to explore and share with the viewer.
The “groundless” images that I create and propose for LUNA NOVA are beyond representation. I am working in this breach between reality and dream that is reality in fact. That leads me to work in high technological level and also very basic constructions sometimes, using poor material or wooden construction made by traditional carpenters. My installations deal with illusion of scales and fantasmatic utopia of discovering potential new worlds. Landscape, mirror effects, wonderland exist as readymade cliché that I can use, break or rebuild to puzzle and surpass habits and express an emotional level of art.
Rain, 1999. interactive installation, projection on the floor and 3 objects, computer, projector, amplifier, speaker and sound multi effects. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Garden, 1999. interactive installation, projection on the floor and 3 objects, computer, projector, amplifier, speaker and sound multi effects. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Objective, 1998. digital print. 91 × 162 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Plant, 1998. digital print. Courtesy of the artist
