Travail de monstre Artwork - Limited Edition of 20

My pictorial work follows a narrative and symbolic approach, developed in series with varied aesthetics. I'm drawn to the zones of tension between humanity, animality, and the sacred. My artworks, often inhabited by hybrid figures, embody inner narratives where irony, fragility, absurdity, and poetry intersect. My trajectory is closely linked to the places I’ve lived: Paris, Prague, and above all, Berlin—a city where I fully committed to artmaking in the late 1990s. The underground and experimental atmosphere of the Berlin scene, particularly around the Tacheles, profoundly shaped my relationship to art: free, fluid, and open to the crossing of disciplines and offbeat imaginaries. I primarily use mixed media techniques: printed image collages, ink, acrylics, oils, markers, or oil pastels… Each series is a distinct exploration, like a standalone chapter from an ever-evolving imagination. I like to alternate between registers, blur stylistic boundaries, and shift visual cues in order to create worlds that challenge our beliefs, our relationship to images, and to our surroundings. My visual universe, sometimes seemingly naïve, conceals darker or more meditative layers. I’m not seeking to develop a single artistic signature, but rather to constantly refresh the gaze, to offer living, open forms that leave space for personal interpretation. Painting, for me, is perhaps a way of conversing with the invisible—that great chatterbox who never answers. Faced with the world’s chaos, I piece together fragments of meaning, fragile totems, living beings dressed in doubt. My figures search, stumble, dream again, and brood. They move forward like the rest of us: wearing foam boots on a minefield. There’s absurdity, inevitably, and a tenderness for glorious misfits. I don’t believe in salvation, but I do believe in the image as a futile talisman—a way of saying: “I saw something pass by, even if I’m not quite sure what it was…”