Influenced by Surrealism and Symbolism, this series of drawings explores the feeling of strangeness between the material experience of the body and spiritual introspection. The vulnerability of existence, in constant movement, anchors into the heart of the flesh to work on, and transform it. In an organized chaos, realistic portraits and organic elements collide in the esthetics of metamorphosis, delicate and monstrous at the same time. The coexistence of violence, tension and letting go invites the gaze of the spectator to roam and be absorbed in this dark and poetic narration.
Protection, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Armistice, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Overflow, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Desincarnations, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Le supplice de Prométhée, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Triptyque, ink and pen on paper, 2013
Marie-Madeleine, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
L'écran, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Anima Mundi, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Invocations, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Enfers, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Ecorcée, Ink, pen on paper, 2014
Silence, Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Rêves; Ink, pen and pencil on paper, 2014
Untitled, pen and pencil on paper, 2015
UNDER YOUR SPELL tryptique
My drawings for Covet express the intense yearning for a feeling or for someone out of reach. The lovers kept apart are possessed by a whirlwind of thoughts, an overflow of emotions, symbolized by organic elements; floating in an ecstatic state, longing for unity.
A thirst fueled by fantasies but left open; unquenchable.
Gaping wound to gaping wound.
The tension of desire and distance.
Opposites calling each other.
Carnal & cosmic, visceral & celestial, this quest for complementarities is lived in a timeless, infinite dimension.
The three drawings tell a story separately or can be seen as a whole, the center drawing of the triptych being the revelation, an abstraction of the sought-after interconnectedness.