'It is in a very archaic world that I would like to take you, to the discovery of small living beings, which have fascinated me for a long time, the world of lichens, and more recently that of blobs. They invested my imagination and invited me, by their forms, their qualities and their complex and almost eternal natures, to create the works that I present in this place.
Lichens are thought to be 450 million years old, almost unnoticed, they exist thanks to the association of a fungus and an alga, it is this symbiotic association that allows them to be resistant in arid deserts as well as in Siberia. They grow very slowly, live very little, are bio indicators of pollution. Would they not be true prophets to guide us to sobriety?
As for the blob, which is neither an animal, nor a plant, nor a fungus but a unicellular being, which is able to move, to feed, to remember when it has no brain. He would have seen the day before the dinosaurs! Fascinating!
I believe in the words of the poet Francis Ponge: «the function of the artist is very clear, he must open a workshop and take in repair the world, in fragments, as it comes to him.»