From a very young age, I was captivated by pop culture, cartoons, and comic book and manga characters. To this day, they remain essential sources of inspiration. I love reinterpreting these familiar figures, playing with them, and distorting them, as if to reveal something hidden just behind the image we think we know.
Nevertheless, I don’t want to limit myself to this light or nostalgic universe. I also address current issues that outrage me: police violence, social tensions, the climate crisis. These themes enter my works sometimes with humor, sometimes with gravity; it all depends on my mood at the moment.
Since my series on the 7th continent, another aspect has become paramount for me: aligning my practice with my values. So, I make my own paints, I transform plant dyes into pigments that I then use for painting, I create my own watercolors, and I practice egg tempera. This requires time and a good deal of persistence, but this research is as much a part of my approach as the image itself. It’s my way of aligning my creation with my convictions.
If I had to define my work, I would say it often lies between the familiarity of a popular universe and the necessity of looking at the world as it is. A mix of nostalgia, satire, irony, and very real concerns.
