Paintings
2023-25
Surface d'errance I and II
Exhibition 2025
Vaste de mille-et-mille mailles - ColLaboratory, Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
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Performance 2023
Opening #12, Studio Étangs noirs, Grand Studio, Brussels, Belgium
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Surface d'errance I, oil painting and chalk on rice paper, hand sewn, 266 × 180 cm, 2023
Surface d'errance II, oil painting and thread on rice paper, hand sewn, 266 × 180 cm, 2023
The project Snodo, ongoing project with choreographer Lisa Da Boit, is the resumption of our collaboration that began in 2018 in research around commitment in art.
The painting, surface where I perform, contains the meticulous and slow hand sewing gestures I made for its assembly and the vigorous ones to capture with chalk the choreographer's dance. Lisa developed the idea of walking, a walk made up of lines, angles, and changes in direction. As she expressed “In my walk a whole range of sensations, thoughts, questions are included: changing my mind, repeating the same route, retracing my steps. And: hesitating, staggering, suspending, accelerating... In the linearity and ease of walking, a question advances at the same pace: what if it could not be like this? This is where the stumbling begins, the startle, the loss of stable ground... These hooks, these knots then echo feelings of fear and insecurity as well as a danger which becomes a concrete threat.”
