I explore the extent of the personal and the emotional, and how our contemporary society affects our way of living, of feeling as well as our way of developing the notion of self.
I am interested in the way in which humans continue to be faithful to themselves despite the daily violence that society forces us to face but also sometimes to commit towards others. My works can be understood as elaborations of emotional reactions to societal problems: indeed, I am not trying to denounce the underlying problem, but I aspire to highlight the feeling that this or that situation gives birth to us.
My work is concerned with representing feelings, especially the most fleeting and subtle, which arise from complex situations on which we have trouble putting words. I'm not trying to explain or understand the problem, but rather to examine how it makes us feel, and our approaches, solutions and limitations to this complexity. I position myself not in the representation of the problem, but in the strategies put in place to transcend it.
I consider the human body and the sensations we feel through it as so much information we receive about the world. The body as receiver and transmitter of data, knowledge, emotions, but also as a place of perpetual questioning. An element that connects us to our past and at the same time anchors us in the present. This “body matter” that we inhabit but which always seems elusive to me is the foundation of my artistic practice, whether in my conceptual research as in my formal research.
As a woman, my work reflects the particular challenges that I face in my private life, and I believe that this also illustrates and comments on the societal problems inherent in our time.