Le Septième Jour - l’Arbre de Vie, 2024
Le Septième Jour – L’Arbre de Vie is an exploration of the invisible, a questioning of the boundaries between art, ritual, and spirituality. It stems from a personal encounter with the sacred, drawing on the transformative experiences of indigenous ceremonies, particularly those of the Gnawa in Morocco. What happens when the Western gaze meets the sacred? Can rituals, deeply rooted in cultural and spiritual contexts, be understood—or even experienced—through the lens of contemporary art?
The photographs in this work blur the lines between darkroom techniques, light manipulation, and microscopic imagery. Some recolored, they offer glimpses of what lies beyond the visible. These images are invitations—to contemplate, to question, and to think deeper our understanding of art in a post-colonial world.
Ni dieu ni maître, 2021
Ni dieu ni maître explores the unpredictable nature of life, blending the randomness of biology with the dynamics of human society. It reflects on the uncontrollable forces that shape existence—whether in the birth of cells, group revolts, or the cosmic interplay of attraction and repulsion. Is life’s essence found in this chaos, in the chance encounters and unforeseen mutations that drive evolution and creativity?
The notion of anarchy, both in nature and society, challenges traditional ideas of order. Can a world free of rigid structures, like trees supporting each other in a forest, reveal a deeper harmony? Or does the rejection of control risk falling into chaos? Abstraction emerge as tools to counter rigid realities, inviting imagination and emotional engagement with life’s paradoxes. Does this abstraction clarify life’s mysteries, or does it merely mirror its ambiguity?
Ni dieu ni maître celebrates disorder as the source of vitality, urging us to reconsider the ways we understand, govern, and create. In this embrace of uncertainty, it asks: How do we find meaning in a world where nothing is written, where everything simply exists and revolts?
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Je n’ai pris au tragique que le bonheur, 2023
Je n’ai pris au tragique que le bonheur is a temporal and physical journey that intertwines portraits and landscapes, blurring the line between individual identity and the world around them. Faces are blurred—a choice born from a reflection on capturing protest images for years , where revealing can be a danger. The blur is both protection and poetry, a tear in the eye that softens the edges of identity.
By blending these portraits with landscapes, the work seeks to return identity to its models in a new form: the curve of this hill is the line of their neck, the horizon is a gaze. This interplay transforms each subject into something universal yet deeply rooted in their unique connection to the world, preserving both their individuality and their intimacy.
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