EVANAISSANCE

Evanaissance explores the reclaiming of agency from inherited narratives and conditioning. The body reveals a passage from protection through rupture toward choice.

Evanaissance is a photographic series composed of seven black-and-white images, resulting from a corporeal research process undertaken in front of the lens and created in Brussels in 2025.

The project explores a process of deconditioning through a female figure confronted with her own illusions. The veil, a recurring element, materializes inherited beliefs and narratives — social, familial, cultural — as well as those formed through lived experience.

The body becomes the visible site of an inner movement. As the veil shifts and transforms, the body moves through protection, tension, rupture, overflow, and eventual appeasement.

A vital impulse sets movement in motion and initiates a process of transformation.

In the final image, a single thread remains. It makes visible the moment of free will — where responsibility and the reclaiming of agency come into play.

An immersive installation emerged from an encounter with a mosaic sculpture representing The Devil, inspired by the Tarot of Marseille. The resonance between this figure — embodying our shadows and our life force — and the photographic sequence led to a circular scenography, echoing the cyclical nature of the liberation process.

The sculpture stands at the center of the installation. A vertical metal structure supports each of the seven prints and culminates in an eighth element, each individually lit within the darkness.

The eighth element, a mirror, positioned perpendicularly and covered with a veil, introduces tension into the spatial arrangement. To discover its nature, the viewer must lift the veil and step toward the threshold, physically positioned between the inside and the outside of the circle, in close proximity to the central sculpture.

Choice is no longer merely represented — it becomes an act.

The installation was first presented in Brussels in 2025.

Evanaissance questions a universal and deeply existential dynamic: how do we respond to the vital impulse that brings us to the point where form falters and something more essential begins to appear ?