Supported by Mondriaan fund 2024

How can I encourage the body to explore itself again? My practice seeks to express immaterial experience like energy and resonance through painting, sculpture and sound. I want to create a meditative space for the viewer to reconnect with him/herself. 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 prior to contact (itself). How will the corresponding body respond? To find possible answers to this question, I created new energetic spaces through 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.

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. It made me decide to work on the principle of sound itself. As sound is vibration and vibration is the basic principle of life itself. And my goal is a reconnection with our senses. I focused on mind, body and dream: a holistic approach on what deep listening could be.

By investigating human attention processes and strategies, I want to challenge our relationships to our body and our surroundings, and listening deeply makes you feel united to a whole, creating sensibility from moment to moment.