Supported by Mondriaan fund 2024

How can I encourage the body to explore itself again and connect with its surroundings?

My practice seeks to express immaterial experiences like energy and resonance through painting, sculpture and sound. I want to create a meditative space for the viewer to reconnect with himself/herself/themselves and his/her/their environment.

My approach is rather sensory than intellectual, and Inspired by personal physical and mental experiments and experiences.

I began by exploring the body’s movement with intuitive movement and dance. While experimenting with my eyes closed, touch and sound become much clearer and new senses arise. What interests me is feeling the energy of someone before contact (itself). How will the corresponding body respond? That inspired me to create paintings using perception, space and colour.

I continued to go deeper into my interest in finding connections to our being (resonance, silence, interconnection) by going to a Zen Buddhist monastery in France. Living among the monks became a starting point for my daily meditation practice. (I was trying to find out what exactly I could bring to the world to be able to find back our harmony and peace). Of course, I did not find an answer and got more questions.

Once back I worked to find in my paintings when the eyes are in transition between the surface and its reflection, creating impermanence, a space in between. In between nature and dream, fullness and emptiness, solidity and evaporation.

By continuing to explore our body and mind, sound became a subject I deepened. I always relate my painting to it, being inspired by it.

That is the reason I took a course on Deep Listening of Pauline Oliveros and followed the Sonology course in the conservatorium.

I decided to work on the principle of sound. As sound is vibration and vibration is the basic principle of life itself. 

My goal is a reconnection with our senses. I focused on mind, body and dream: a holistic approach on what deep listening could be.

I started to use field recordings, learned about the effect of hertz and find ways to express my sonic work with on-site project taking the shape of a sound walk or an installation. 

By investigating human attention processes and strategies, I challenge our relationships with our bodies and our surroundings.

Listening deeply has this ability to make you feel united as a whole, creating sensibility from moment to moment.