statement

I got the inspiration for my series “Ensemble Fugitifs” at the ”Marché d’Aligre”, a fruit and vegetable market in the heart of Paris, close to the Bastille. Every day when the marketeers leave their stalls, the streets get covered with all sorts of garbage. Before the streets are cleaned, I pick up thrown fruits and vegetables and stage them mixed with other things such as broken lamps, toys, old clothes, books, things that have lost their value… to create immediate still lifes on the asphalt.

I have chosen a very classic theme ”the still life” which I question and which I try to reinvent. In order to make a beautiful composition, I make atypical, maybe even "antiaesthetical" arrangements. The coloring is saturated and antinatural, even exaggerated. Suddenly natural and artificial materials seem to fit together. It is not a harmonic or well-done composition. I am interested in a new way of seeing things.

I also like the fact that my sculptures are transitory;
it reflects our society where things have a very short life and get replaced very quickly. I consider the way I work as my personal way of recycling and questioning our consumer society.