Publication – Smaris Elaphus No. 3

Lately, it seems that memory occupies me without troubling me anymore.
Memory, as a vector of change, is what moves me.
I call it the Exalted Future — ex-haussé: that which lifts us toward the better parts of ourselves.

It feels like an arrival point. For the past year, I have been reclaiming the traces I have left behind, consciously or not: sculptures or paintings lying fallow, collected elements that I reinterpret and bring to completion.
I explore endings that are also beginnings within the LABA–Paris residency, whose presentation will take place in Paris on November 19 — I will tell you more about it soon.
It is the future taking shape upon the past.

I have also reflected on memory with and for the remarkable journal Smaris Elaphus, dedicated to contemporary creation.
In its issue no. 03, the annual publication explores memory and noise.
As in my work, memory takes form in silence — this is what I present in the pages of Smaris Elaphus.

The journal will be published on January 10, 2026.
To support its independent edition — without advertising or subsidies — you can pre-order it now through November 20, 2025:
https://www.artshebdomedias.com/smaris-elaphus/

Excerpt

“A silence that surrounds what has not been said or understood.
Memory is not so much an accumulation of recollections as a space of resonance —
a troubled zone where what has been repressed continues to act.
Let’s just say I do not remember well.
Or perhaps, not as I should.
And it is precisely this lack that compels me to search and to question.
Is memory sacred? Under what conditions does it become an obstacle?
Or is it a foundation?
Each of us carries a memory, conscious or not, transmitted or reconstructed.
Each can be burdened by things they do not understand, that pass through them despite themselves.
The temptation, then, is to look outward — for an outlet, a distraction, an explanation.
But this work must be done within.
That is where memory becomes alive.
I do not believe it is a sanctuary — rather, a material to be transformed…”

Conversation with Marie-Laure Desjardins