Kreëmart: The Provocateurs of Experimental Consumption
At the invitation pof Kreëmart, I am taking part in the group exhibition The Provocateurs of Experimental Consumption at Galerie Alberta Pane in Paris.
The exhibition explores our relationship to consumption and to what fuels our desires, in a world where acceleration and accumulation sometimes seem to stand in for movement.
I am presenting three works from Futur /ɛɡ.zo.se/, a movement within my practice taht returns to what has remained suspended, transforming it to bring forth the futures in held in potential.
Two works created from pallets that I had been keeping since 1995, and a still life entitled ‘Exhaussé’ (2007/2026), thus bring different temporalities into play. What had been abandoned, forgotten or left in waiting becomes active material once again.
The past is no longer what we preserve, but what something can still emerge from.
Ecolint – Piece of Love
For Piece of Love, I am delighted to present two installations, Geography of Memory and Monoliths, which explore how we inhabit the present through memory, presence, and what we carry within us.
Geography of Memory brings together a library of fragments, hollowed-out books, marked Bibles and reworked images of the body. These traces and remnants of what we experience form an intimate cartography, inviting us to look at what shapes us in order to better choose what we continue to build.
The Monoliths, inspired by the tombs of Borgel Cemetery in Tunis, are reinterpreted in polished mirror-finish stainless steel. Their surfaces reflect the sky, the light and the visitor’s body; the engraved words are revealed only through their shadow.
Two works, two movements: looking within in order to better inhabit the world.
Fondation Villa Datris – Méditerranée, Odyssées contemporaines
Born from the stories of the Mediterranean, Teva is an overturned ark, beached on land.
In Hebrew, teva means both “ark” and “word.”
This is where the work resides: in this fragile space where what sustains can also drift, where what names can also be absent.
Between cocoon and nest, Teva is not a place of transformation.
It is a place of waiting.
Where something might be born—or disappear.
This is the piece that the Fondation Villa Datris chose for the exhibition Mediterraneans, Contemporary Odysseys.
In the context of the Mediterranean, it does not recount the crossings.
It preserves their inner trace.
What remains within us of movement, of uprooting, of fear, of the longing for a place.
LABA Paris 1st Edition
The first edition of the LABA Paris residency comes to an end.
On this occasion, we invite you to discover the works and research of the artists who, throughout the year, have explored the theme of Change — at the crossroads of contemporary creation and Jewish textual tradition.
LABA Paris is a cultural laboratory: a space for experimentation, dialogue, and transformation.
Here, texts become material, ideas take shape, and artworks emerge through a constant movement between thought and sensibility.
This final presentation invites you to step into this living process — between reflection, metamorphosis, and the spatial unfolding of artistic journeys.
Each creation maps a passage, a transformation — whether intimate, spiritual, or collective.
Ecolint – Origins
Invited by the students of the International School of Geneva, together with their mentors Manuel Fadat and Mélanie Delaune, I had the pleasure of presenting a new stage in the project Sèves Brutes, initiated in Bordeaux in 2018.
This installation explores, in three movements, the traces of the living through the metaphor of raw sap — the primal flow that nourishes plants as it does our memories.
The past materializes in glass fossils, fragile remnants posing the question: what remains when nothing remains?
The present takes shape in a large ink drawing, recomposable like truth itself, part of which extends across the walls of the Centre des Arts.
The future, finally, emerges through videos where the earth pulses with life — inspiration followed by expiration — a vital breath that fades, allowing the next to arise.
On the morning of the opening, a performative conversation unfolded across the glass surfaces of the space: my threads of thought, in direct dialogue with the other artists in the exhibition, extended the gesture of Sèves Brutes toward a future in the making.
Réfléchissements
From Septembre 26th to Octobre 26 th 2024
Opeming le Septembre 26 2024 from
Open hours
Thursday to Sunday from 13-19 heures
Curators
Barvara Polla and
Jean François Aimé