Trained as a photographer, matter has become more and more present in my art. I turned to alternative photographic techniques, went back to darkroom practices and I am interested in Toy Cameras (plastic Dana cameras), pinhole, polaroid, cyanotype, caffenol process, etc…
Drawn to this techniques for their tactile quality, I use one or the other, or work them together, thereby « making » my photos. I like adding a touch of paint or colour pencil to the final prints. I often binds them together in an artist book.
Book making and analogue photography teaches me to take time again, and are part of my inside growing process. That’s why I love alternative process and binding : time passes and life breaks down into different fragments. Introspective project, I mix characters and everyday objects, bodies and materials. They evoke loneliness, fear, the question of identity, but also happiness, and our natural surroundings.
Like footprints, sometimes light, sometimes pronounced, this technics leave a more or less readable imprint of my perception of the world at a given moment; the photos capture a sudden, fleeting, vanished emotion. Taken at various moments of life, they create a dialogue between them, once assembled in artist’s books and object book. They make moments of simplicity or unconventional, beautiful.
I like the intuitive and straightforward side of this art. I love the cyanotype for its timeless, dreamlike, mysterious side. I use it to compare this « timeless » side with my artistic approach, questioning the moment and memory. The imprecise and the blurry come to the fore, changing the relationship to space and time. Sometimes minimalist, my prints are therefore like drawing or sketching.
What I feel connects with what I have seen, what I have lived. Witnessing other’s life with a woman gaze, with my own gaze; being a watcher, but also feeling, marvelling, growing. Having memories in my head, bringing them back and transcribing them through various artistic practices.
My artwork walks the line between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, and the representational versus abstract, my sculptural book works combining the plasticity of mixed-media compositions with two-dimensional photographic image.