Who’s Afraid of Light, 2026

“A way to understand existence… It is about awe. It is about transcendence.”

— Stéphane Ducret

The possibility of an œuvre

Landscapes, interiors and environments act as metaphors for the inner self. Behind the first reading, we understand that there are other layers, suggesting a deeper and deeper space and an enigmatic experience.

Physicists distinguish between two facts: that time passes and that we cannot find in the future a moment that we have already passed through in the past and that things change irreversibly.
I believe that time is not a rigid system, that it can be perceived in a fluid way that differs from person to person. Time is evoked in my views of the sea, clouds or mountains, from the window of an airplane. Air travel is a ritual of standing still while in movement, and connecting both to the now and to the infinite. This work leads us to question the past, the future and the present that lies in between.

The paintings of the My Own Private Museum series (from 2023) raise the question of the creator's identity and confront the void, the blank page, even the erasure of the self.
Like Woody Allen's Zelig, I tackle a subject dear to psychology : the identification with reference characters in order to be loved, or to avoid rejection. In doing so, I question our need for recognition and our relation to an ubiquitous and growing omniscient digital environment.

In the Real Estate series (from 2017), I explore the relationship between reality and imagination, between knowledge and recognition, blurring limits of perception.
Contemporary masterpieces are combined - sometimes obviously, sometimes implicitly - in imaginary settings where I create new narratives, disconnected from their original context, setting up a complex and highly referenced multi-faceted imaginary dialogue, in which I take up and develop the discourses of the artists I quote.