Please Have a Seat is a reflection on the idea of place. How do you find your place as an artist, what does it mean to receive a place, to take a place, to invent a place? How are places relative to context, to History?

Reynald Maureen is a fictional Swiss conceptual artist I invented in 2022. By disguising myself as a man, I revisit a moment in the history of art when men occupied almost all the space. For me, this character is a way of living out a kind of childhood dream nourished by dominant narratives, of having the absolute experience of being a solitary artist who is the only one who truly understands the deepest essence of his work.

This work I’m presenting is a kind of methodology for finding a place and defining a concrete place, the one where I act as an artist, and at the same time an empty place where the work remains in the state of a concept.