THE SCULPTED MEMORY OF PAPER : «My sculptures in paper embody the fragile yet profound relationship between matter and psyche. Resembling abstract origami, they are born from a fluid dialogue with the materialitself.
The process begins with paper, softened and rendered malleable by paint. At this moment, the paper surrenders to my hands, myarms, my entire body. I press, shape, and mold it, coaxing it intoform, wrestling with its resistance.
The moment the paint dries, the sculpture freezes in place, suspended in a moment of finality like a psychic fixation point, reminiscent of the child’s malleable psyche as it begins to take shape. Once solidified, I revisit the sculpture with dripping blue pigments and paint. This deliberate act of throwing, layering, and guiding the blue creates shadows and highlights, amplifying the density and relief of the piece. Light dances on its surface, revealing its contours and its depths, like memory caughtbetween clarity and obscurity.
The process is deeply ambivalent; marked by both rapid spontaneity and pain staking delicacy. Each stage demands presence, precision, and surrender.
The process begins with paper, softened and rendered malleable by paint. At this moment, the paper surrenders to my hands, myarms, my entire body. I press, shape, and mold it, coaxing it intoform, wrestling with its resistance.
The moment the paint dries, the sculpture freezes in place, suspended in a moment of finality like a psychic fixation point, reminiscent of the child’s malleable psyche as it begins to take shape. Once solidified, I revisit the sculpture with dripping blue pigments and paint. This deliberate act of throwing, layering, and guiding the blue creates shadows and highlights, amplifying the density and relief of the piece. Light dances on its surface, revealing its contours and its depths, like memory caughtbetween clarity and obscurity.
The process is deeply ambivalent; marked by both rapid spontaneity and pain staking delicacy. Each stage demands presence, precision, and surrender.
Every sculpture is an emotional balancingact, a convergence of the intuitive and the deliberate, thefragile and the enduring. At the heart of my concept lies a profound connection topsychology, rooted in Freud’s postulate : art is intimately tied tothe artist’s repressed content.
Each piece is both symbolic and symptomatic, a territory of the unconscious, where traces anddetails betray what repression could not fully conceal. It is within these slight ruptures, these partial failures of repression, that the unconscious seeps into the work.
This is what gives art its captivating power : the delicate tension between mastery and rupture.The polished surface of the sculpture, its formal success, is subtly deformed by the unseen, by the trembling hand of the psyche that cannot remain silent.
My paper sculptures are thus landscapes of the unconscious, where form and formlessness, memory and instinct, collide and intertwine.
They invite the viewer into this fragile balance,into the shadows and lights of their own depths, resonating with the imperfections that make us human»
Each piece is both symbolic and symptomatic, a territory of the unconscious, where traces anddetails betray what repression could not fully conceal. It is within these slight ruptures, these partial failures of repression, that the unconscious seeps into the work.
This is what gives art its captivating power : the delicate tension between mastery and rupture.The polished surface of the sculpture, its formal success, is subtly deformed by the unseen, by the trembling hand of the psyche that cannot remain silent.
My paper sculptures are thus landscapes of the unconscious, where form and formlessness, memory and instinct, collide and intertwine.
They invite the viewer into this fragile balance,into the shadows and lights of their own depths, resonating with the imperfections that make us human»
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #1
120 x 130 x 45 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #2
110 x 140 x 40 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #5
110 x 80 x 20 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #6
100 x 80 x 40 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #3
90 x 100 x 30 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024
PAYSAGE ENNEIGÉ - SPLASH #4
125 x 110 x 25 cm
Acrylic paint, wax and pigments on paper.
Unique piece - 2024