THE FOREST IN THE HOUSE
2020
Installation created in a house in Brussels where we lived and developed our artistic research.
Designed to be exhibited to the public, the installation will ultimately never be presented due to the restrictions imposed at that time.
A charred forest invades the living room.
The forest burned into the house.
The destroyed landscape penetrates the intimate space until the inside and outside become almost indistinguishable.
Like an electric shock, the work confronts the home with what was still thought to be distant or impossible.
This installation marks an important milestone in my work.
It defines the beginning of a research where sculpture ceases to be an isolated object to exist physically in space.
Ivory Memory
This installation, created in a house, takes the form of an elephant tusk trophy placed above a fireplace, like a decorative vestige inherited from a culture of domination and appropriation of living things.
Covered with calcareous concretions and organic formations, the defenses seem to slowly disappear, absorbed by time until they become the fossils of an ancient violence.
The spikes that cover their surface evoke both a possible regeneration and the brutality of the tools used to kill elephants and tear off their tusks.
The work thus transforms the colonial trophy into a silent and almost funereal presence, where human barbarity already appears condemned to oblivion.
Bird Nation
Installation of plaster sculptures
Accumulation of forms created during a residency in Marseille, 2024.
This installation brings together some of the birds produced for Bird Nation, a series developed around the notions of proliferation, demography and occupation of space.
The forms aggregate here like a living, mutating substance, until they become an autonomous organic landscape, somewhere between architecture, ruin, and organism.
The accumulation transforms each sculpture into an element of a collective body.
The whole thing evokes both natural growth and an uncontrolled overflow, where the individual gradually disappears into the mass.
Installation created during a residency in Marseille.
Immature
Moving into a mansion in Marseille
Exhibition presented for one month
This installation from the Immatur series presented the sculptures as presences integrated into the domestic space. Installed in different rooms of the house, the works were conceived not as isolated gallery objects, but as forms capable of coexisting with the architecture, the furniture, and daily life.
The exhibition deliberately played with the codes of interior decoration, while subverting them. Behind their appearance as decorative objects, the sculptures retain an organic and ambiguous dimension: calcified forms, burnt materials, surfaces resembling coral or a relic.
The project thus questioned our way of inhabiting spaces and bringing into our interiors forms from a post-organic imagination, between aesthetic fascination and memory of transformed living things.