IMAGES-MIRAGES

My first material is the flow of images that tirelessly cross our screens and public space, especially the ones about landscapes and their power to make us desire and dream.

Of course there’s something impersonal in these images. I’m seeing them as vacant spaces that we can choose to revive by injecting narratives, intimate fantasies.

I believe these images create a spectral gaze that builds our way to look at our environment. I’m trying to remix them into digital paintings that I called images-mirages.

I wonder about the incarnation of these floating digital images.

During the process of passing through the screen, a loss is inevitable.

As if they were destined to pay this price to be able to materialize.

Their presence in the concrete space makes them become sort of still-lifes.

I use these popular, déja-vu, images, and the familiarity they provoke as a gateway to a more complex universe. Often, I use poetic words to help you to dive into the uncontrolled shifts of your imagination.

My research is nourished by articles on natural phenomena at the origin of strange appearances in the environment, for example: the presence of bioluminescent aquatic micro-shrimps giving the snow a luminous blue tint. I mix scientific sources with fictional texts: speculative science fiction novels, legends, cosmogonic myths.

With my texts and images, I’m always blurring lines, I want people to wonder about the origin, the roots of my materials. I’m building poetic spaces mixing digital productions with more traditional manual techniques, real facts with supernatural legends and it’s a way to deal with anxiogenic facts.

I’m convinced that fiction and our speculative imagination can help us to build a healthier relationship with our environment.

Image credits: Jean Damien Charmoille and David Coste