I am interested in the poetic potential of co-dependent and asymmetrical relationships between humans and the Earth. Faced with the unpredictability of an uncertain future, visions of hope and collapse emerge.

My painting is part of a pictorial tradition closely linked to art history, while contextualizing it in light of current issues. I therefore draw on the Western imagination to explore the tensions inherent in the human experience, which is both ephemeral in nature and lasting in its consequences. Formally, I reactivate certain codes of Romantic aesthetics: exaltation of the sublime, fascination with ruins, melancholy landscapes, while injecting a dreamlike sensibility.


The very materiality of painting connects me to the five centuries of creation that precede me, just as it propels me toward the unknown of the next five. In this way, my work questions the place of humans in the continuum of time, within a world suspended on the brink of the abyss. I perceive ghosts, ruins, birds of ill omen, and fiery cracks, symbols that reveal our condition.

Although the concept of the end of the world has long been viewed through a metaphysical lens, it is now part of the tangible consequences of human intervention. With the collapse of perspectives and persistent blindness to the threat, my iconography weaves a link between anxiety and contemplation, as a silent way of grasping the irreversible.



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