Artistic Approach

Through a multidisciplinary practice and driven by the desire to highlight a disturbance between life and death, I create a world made of counter-forms, between fantasy and reality.

I like to create a sense of unease in the viewer by drawing on the theory of the uncanny valley, itself derived from Freud’s concept of the uncanny. According to Freud, this feeling of strangeness arises where the boundaries between imagination and reality become blurred, where ‘what we used to think of as fantastic appears to us as real’. To do this, I seek to disturb the very state of things, playing with movement and inertia to question the viewer’s usual perceptions. I thus create forms from my imagination and my drawing practice, which constitute a notebook of figures from which I draw to construct my narratives. Using a language based on shadows, threads and the articulated body, I create puppets and fabulous bestiaries in strange landscapes, creating a parallel with reality. To get as close as possible to this point of confrontation that generates unease, I breathe movement into certain figures. In particular, I use the stop motion technique to animate my creations and explore the subtle threshold between the inert and the living.

Moving from the maquette to the exhibition space, then to the stage, my work inhabits different spaces and exists on different scales, constantly metamorphosing and multiplying its challenges.