A burning sun

My work revolves around themes related to the Mediterranean. I have a strong interesting with light and particularly the sun light. This interest surely comes from my geographical origins, the south of France and this typical, omnipresent sunlight.

I started this body of work at the time of the lockdown during the pandemic.

I was stuck in the south of France, in my family home. It's an old farmhouse in the countryside and I started to use the space around me as a creative space and a space of freedom to create.

It is a project of formal exploration through light and colors.

I started by photographing the elements around me, I photographed the garden space where I was, I used the environment around me as a field of experimentation and a kind of open air studio. I isolated elements, shadows, forms, plants, then worked on the materials and colors.

I tried to exhaust my gaze, and to put a new look on this landscape, on this restricted environment and yet full of possibilities. Being in this closed environment allows me to affix a new, curious look on the banal and usual things that surrounded us.

I compose my images with scraps of paper, plants, fabrics and salvaged materials.

I am interested in the raw object, for its materiality and its narrative potential.

The object becomes a surface, multiplies under the effect of the sun.

I work on my images in an intuitive way, in an artistic gesture which puts forward the color and the form to create composition. These narrative forms that make up my images are built of layers and articulate to create dense images. The different mediums I use allow me to bring texture, and to work with bright colors in order to create a tempo in the image. These colors, as a revelation of light, interact in the image and create a new space.

I wanted to propose a visual representation of feelings related to Mediterranean. Like an intense heat, the touch of the salt, the sea or its smell, we are often located between the abstraction and the real.