I think of my work as an exploration of the ideas of cultural anchoring and legacies, in a context of erosion and hybridization of these notions. This interest in systems of belonging to plural histories, cultures and therefore migrations, is accompanied by a desire to reinvent individual or collective myths and rituals, in an era of globalization, cultural mixing and decline of ecosystems. My practice, essentially sculptural, shows a fascination for manufactured objects, for archaeology, but also for the oral transmission specific to tales and fiction. Borrowing from various craft techniques, I develop inhabited environments, intermingled with stories, symbols and metaphors, sometimes evoking folklore, family stories, domesticity and constructions-ruins.
I am a member of Collective Disgrace, which I co-founded at the end of 2019 with Sophie Conus, Henry Drake and Ilana Winderickx. The project brings together practices ranging from sculpture to experimental sound, writing and DJing. It thus aims to question the apocalyptic imaginations of an era marked by the disappearance of a non-human otherness and the resulting dream worlds. Borrowing from the monstrous, the mythical, the supernatural, ruin or even from various creatures and symbols of progress, we weave together environments charged with a feeling of nostalgia for things never experienced, and the fear inspired by an uncertain future.
Parallel to my plastic work, I co-founded in December 2019 in the Eaux-Vives district of Geneva the artist-run space LIMBO, which I’ve been co-directing since then. A place for sharing, experimentation and exhibitions, LIMBO aims to question the reality of a city such as Geneva, situated at the crossroads of cultures, powers and challenges of the globalized world. Located in a changing area close to the the city’s cross-border residential districts, LIMBO sees itself as a platform dedicated to the interstices, the in-betweens that we inhabit, whether culturally or geographically.