invité de l’exposition

« L’eau vue par les artistes », the Millénaire de Caen exhibition, brings together a number of contemporary views on our relationship with water.
As a guest artist, I’m exhibiting some thirty works – including several large-format works designed for the occasion.
Driven by a deep attachment to Caen, I have sought to create a dialogue between water and stone, through devices combining paint, matter, sound and vibration.
Water circulates here as it has done for centuries: fluid, persistent, digging into matter and awakening memory.
This page shares a few fragments, echoing the exhibition.

ML273 – ML274 – ML275


Triptyque – 160 x 420 cm – Peinture acoustique


Triptych – 160 x 420 cmAcoustic painting

ML280


Installation picturale 180 X 120 X 120 cm avec ruissellement en cycle continu – Fragments de pierre de Caen, eau, pigments


Painted installation 180 X 120 X 120 cm with continuous trickle – Fragments of Caen stone, water, pigments

Water is not soft. It polishes, hollows, imprints its memory.
This work pays tribute to the dialogue between water and stone, between the fluidity of the river and the mineral mass.
In Caen, the water of the Orne has transported the blond stone elsewhere, sculpting the history of a territory.
On each side of the installation, a continuous trickle runs through fragments of Caen stone. Nothing overflows, but everything is slowly altered.
ML280 explores the tension between permanence and transformation, between memory and matter.
What does the water whisper here? Matter forgets nothing.