Wings's Birthday Drawing

IAP Programme d’Intégrité Artistique : créer les conditions d’expérimentations d’états modifiés de conscience à travers des formes opératives*. *genre d’activité qui produit un effet. ARTIST STATEMENT The drawings featured in this presentation are freeform, ‘streams of consciousness’. When I find myself in an optimistic mental space, open to the world, I start to draw and enter a modified state of consciousness, in which I try to connect with the universe. This gesture becomes a form of meditation for me, where I find myself anchored in the present moment. I project this inner experience into my creative gesture, into the action of drawing, as a way of contributing to the world around me. The drawings are often made in one continuous stroke of a single gesture as a performance, in a relationship to the body, to time and energy, a trance on paper, wall or architectural space. The different scales of the works depend on the context - that of a small notebook, a sheet of paper, a large wall in the studio or gallery, or through projections, enlarged to the scale of the city. This work evokes and expresses my concern for ecology. It projects me towards the future, that of a future to be imagined in response to the crises of our societies. Those related to the environment, food, demography, digital surveillance, health, housing, water...