My pictorial approach stems from my original passion for tattoo. After exploring body and tattoo’s interactions through engraving at the Beaux-Arts of Versailles, my practice has evolved towards a pictural research focused on painting and color.
In parallel to my activity as a painter, I have developed in recent months a practice around hand poke, tattoo realized without a machine but a needle.
Constantly running through my mind, Henri Matisse’s artwork has sharpen my singular vision of body and colors. That pictural desire crashed into my discovery of aboriginal art, which maintains intimate links with the tattoos and scarifications from Pacific, practices which are dear to me.
I weave a path between Matisse and Oceanian arts, a path where paints and tattoos, pictorial and dermal layers mingle.
Encountering the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke, and particularly his elegies, has marked a turning point in my pictural researches, forming the spine that they took these last months.
The bodies that inhabit my compositions are deliberately constrained into the space of the canvas, they become one with. I compose by playing between the different planes of the canvas thanks to color, looking for a very thin equilibrium between reality and chaos.
My tattoo practice, as for it, widens my perception of layer, through the relationship I develop with the human dermis. Close to mediation, this practice is an integral part of the artist that I am and of my future work, all media confused.