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Multidisciplinary visual artist, I reread images, texts and sound around the questioning of identity and beliefs, and myths, which too often untie. The 20th century made pop culture idols, sacred iconography became popular, even secular. The sacred, what is apart, is an object that metaphorizes what questions us. What is our identity, our gender? What do we care about? What binds us together? Is it immutable or versatile? What makes us want to get up in the morning and meet others?

Through sound, textile and pictorial installations, I aspire to immerse the spectators in a theatrical and multiple atmosphere around figures from monotheistic and polytheistic myths. To do this, I propose installations with motion detectors or public interactions (creating speech bubbles around the paintings), based on texts mixing my writing with that of philosophers, embroidered, sewn, knitted textile objects and a series of large format acrylic paintings, even very large formats (two meters or more), and sprinkle the whole thing with a touch of humour.

If Saint John the Baptist and Orpheus often come back in my obsessions, my works are more and more interested in Eve or Salomé, women relegated to the background in History and myths: Pomona or Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, Glaucé, Medea9;s replacement. The questioning of the place of women in the founding texts, in society, the link on gender, the primacy of one gender over another, the origin of the world, the myth of origin, Adam and Eve, their skin color… enamel my symbolic portraits and try to touch timelessness.

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