Ailleurs Painting

My visual work is on the edge of abstraction. In my life as in my work, I seek a fragile balance between what is dual: nature and culture, light and shadow, black and white... Energy and life hide in the way from one to the other. In my sculptures, all made of clay, I bring a visceral energy that I transcribe into organic - yet completely abstract - forms. Each sculpture has a different meaning depending on the angle from which it is viewed; it often takes the form of calligraphy. My paintings reflect a mental landscape, with which a human trace (writing, calligraphy, sign or symbol) interacts. I seek to transcribe the power, serenity and mystery of nature. Not by depicting them, but by expressing their abstract essence. From culture, I retain more or less evolved traces, from the crude mark to abstract calligraphy, or the presence of poetry excerpts. It's a questioning that I share through my creations: between nature and culture, between empty and full, between light and shadow, between sky and humanity.