Le Grand Vide
“On my Instagram feed, pizzas, pieces of art, enticing guys, kittens, landscapes, family photos come together and form an abstract universe of which I am the only subject. A new world in the world, absurd and intrusive, ‘portrait chinois’ where fantasy reveals reality, and vice versa.” A photo collage work inspired by the flow of photos seen daily. /

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maigres mirages
“I am a fan for a long time of Samuel Beckett’s univers. His way of looking at silence, his helpless bodies, his torn shapes, his seething inner world salutes beauty in its poverty. An approach not working on meaning but only on aesthetics.” Series of drawings inspired by Samuel Beckett poems ‘mirlitonnades’. /

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Open Files
Red Glow series is on display in a dark room in a group show curated by Anouchka van Driel and Vito Plantamura and produced by V Collective at West Bund Art center in Shanghai. /

Hourglass
I have been working on a new series of drawings inspired by some NASA satellite views. Every detail of these patterns is patiently drawn in vector based on collage of the melting ice of the north pole. Hours, days and weeks drawing them. A slow but determined countdown of the transformation of our planet, and in fact, of our societies which will have to live in an environment that is less and less hospitable. /

Frères Ennemis
This series of drawings explores the range of feelings between brothers. I am doing a limited edition of prints on museum Etching Hahnemühle 350g paper. Edition of 15, handsigned and numbered. /

Camille Claudel museum
On the occasion of its opening Camille Claudel Museum asked me to work on the creative direction of their visual identity and their launch campaign. /

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Anatomy of Identity
150 posters inspired by French and worldwide coats of arms are displayed in the building of the Biblioteca Comunale Dell'archiginnasio in Bologna. An installation produced by Fruit Prod. /

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Here is Zine Tokyo
I have been invited by Enlightenment to create an artist book on the Blue Series to be shown at the event Here is Zine Tokyo. An event curated by Kimiko Mitani Woo at Tokyo Cultuart by Beams Harajuku. /

Collection Blanche
The designs are composed of four different and intriguing narratives featuring one or more characters. Each plate forms part of the puzzle, is it four different stories or four parts of the same scene? Patterns design created for TH Manufacture. /

Pouvoirs
Fontevraud Royal Abbey invited me to work on an exhibition, for the Summer, focusing on powers and symbols over time. The solo show consists of 12 lacquered and screen-printed wood panels and a series of animated coats of arms. Curated by Emmanuel Morin. /

Encounter
An exhibition and a capsule collection created with Ludovica Diligu the founder of Labo.Art. The exhibition is displayed at their creative headquarters and flagship store in Milan during Design week. Curated and produced by Pokko agency. /

Blue Series
“It is an indelible blue, a death without star where memories suffice. A fractal blue splitting up objects, faces, and places. The blue on her cheek, the blue on his fingers stained by wine, the blue of a dress, the irised blue of a pair of shorts, the blue of a bunch of irises with thin petals liquified for being too long cut. It is the blue of an ether’s bottle putting reality to sleep, a psychological magnifying glass whose drama will fade with time.” Solo show at Espaï Tactel in Valencia. /

Fort Contemporain
Musée du Château de Mayenne invited me to take part in a group show named Fort Contemporain. An installation of imaginary flags and coats of arms inspired by the place. Curated by Mathias Courtet. /

Blackout
Opacity and solidity of the black punched here by organic patterns. Drawings patiently chiseled. It is a X-ray of emotions. As if all light turned off, the bodies dissolved to mingle with the Cosmos. Solo show curated by Lee Wagstaff at Rise Berlin. /

Français!
Creation of 150 posters of imaginary coats of arms. Seeking through the reappropriation of the coats of arms of cities, regions and countries to redefine today's national identity: a crossroads of cultures, a diversity of origins. Installation curated by mathias Courtet at the town hall of Metz. /

Aimer Marie
Large sheets of paper, printed on the front of a drawing and on the back in red, are suspended in the center of the nave. The circulation and intensity of light throughout the day animate and vary the projected red color. A mille-feuilles effect that became a narrative sculpture. Installation curated by Mathias Courtet at La Chapelle des Calvairiennes in Mayenne. /

Lyrics!
Hélène Bailly Gallery in Paris invited artists to create an piece using lyrics of some singers. I have been working on Pete Doherty’s ‘The Light Behind You Eyes’. Group Show curated by Olivier Dermaux. /

No Man’s Land
After moving to a new building, the French Embassy in Tokyo invited nearly 200 French and Japanese artists, internationally recognized or emerging, to create works in situ in its old premises before their destruction. Group show curated by Hélène Kelmachter at the French Embassy in Tokyo. /

Cadavres Exquis
“Tokyo, kaleidoscope of fashion, a collective search for individuality. Random streets, random individuals, Tokyo draws a catalog in permanent evolution, a notebook in numerous tendencies, and never finished silhouette.” Solo show curated by Kimiko Mitani Woo at Diesel Art Gallery in Tokyo. /

 

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