Organics Matters

I am constantly looking to work with natural material even when I know little about it and I am aware that it may cause anxiety. I like to think of myself as an explorer just landed on an island who is looking for the unusual and the unknown. At the same time, hand made work comforts me in my artisan nature as I wish also to give value to the arts of everyday.

Using organic matter enables me to experiment the feel of materials while augmenting the physicality of the art piece. It is not the sociocultural aspects of a particular material constructed over time that interests me but its inherent characteristics. By continuing to work with natural substances I wish to demonstrate my consideration for all life forms and overall, my process may be defined as a research on the possibilities of substances to transform.

Babiche 1

2019

Babiche (rawhide), reclining armchair, carpet, chest of drawers, coffee table, approx. 4 x3 x3 m.

Planisphère Anonimo, Italie? Circa 2180

2018

Gold coloured nails, chicken bones, linen mounted on plywood, gilded frame, paper, 65 x100 cm.

Bread and circuses

2002

Environmental installation part of the exhibition Inhabitation, organized by 11 women in an abandoned factory space on the premisses of the Château Saint-Ambroise.

Bread dough (flour, yeast, sugar, water), cement mixer, surface area approx. 5 m².

Invagination

1999

Two triptychs mounted on steel frames: styrofoam panels, 3 colour prints 244 x122 cm each; one colour print 68 x60 cm and one 32 x54 cm.

photo credit: photo Guy L’Heureux.

Dessin au poil

1998

Collaborative event with Louise Simard for the exhibition Consensuel .

Environmental drawing applied directly to the wall: liquid latex, red pastel, hair from a fur coat, space approx 300 m2 without lighting.