Artist Statement

« First, there are utopias which are places without real locations. [...] Heterotopia,​

for its part, have the power to juxtapose in one real site multiple ​spaces or ​

locations that are, in themselves, incompatibles.» [Personal translation]

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FOUCAULT, M. (1984). « Des espaces autres ». Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité, n°5, pp. 46-49.​

Throughout my practice, I artistically evoke and reinvent landscape itself by using every-day objects and combining them in different ways. It is by the act of reassembling these diversely mundane objects that I invite the viewer into an alternative and synthetic world: Where materials are simultaneously used as means of both evasion and fortification within reality. When Foucault speaks about theses other spaces, that are capable of reassembling multiple times and spaces into one, he articulates this strange phenomenon that we experience in buses while traveling, in cinemas and, I would add, in exhibitions. A heterotopia is a distorted relation to space, a location where we are transported elsewhere even if we do not travel physically. This phenomenon. on which I was thinking while developing my project, drew me in because it questions our connexion with space, scale and time. While creating immersive universes, I’m interested in the relationship humans experience with their environment. I’m wondering if we should consider the human being as fundamentally connected to and influenced by both its physical and social environment. This questioning is translated in my practice by the way I install my work, using site specificities. Thus, cracks, windows and pipes, act as the root of the microcosmic environment. By working at a miniature scale, I invite the viewer to enter a mediated and intimate state of mind, which is imbedded at the core of the work. As an artist, not only do I use sculpture as a method of research but my choice of medium also relies on the physical manipulation with materials and the unscripted results of my productions that I use to my advantage. In conclusion, with the ability of physical and immediate contact with my surrounding materials, my creations permit me to express and communicate my own unique relationship to space.