invité de l’exposition

« L’EAU VUE PAR LES PEINTRES »

du 6 au 28 septembre 2025

« 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

What water does to the eye, what sound does to silence.

A work to look at. A work to listen to.
This triptych explores the inner movement of matter, the fluid memory of forms, the energy that circulates between the visible and invisible.
Water is present without being represented. It can be seen in the ripples, textures and density of the blue. It absorbs, pulses and holds.
The central painting is also a loudspeaker, broadcasting an original soundscape, shaped like a sculpture. The sound does not comment on the image – it extends the gesture, becoming its material.
Painting and sound cohabit, vibrating together, forming a single presence between surface and depth.
Presented for the first time at Caen’s Saint-Nicolas church, this work is part of the exhibition L’eau vue par les artistes (#MillénaireCaen2025 – September), resonating with the architecture of and the silence it invites us to listen to.

ML280

Water imprints, digs, transforms.
In Caen, the water of the Orne flows through the city, linking stone to sea. Since the 11th century, it has transported blonde stone to other lands, building cathedrals and memories.
ML280 is part of this fluid history. Water flows in a loop over a surface that blends pigments and fragments of Caen stone.
Underneath this continuous flow, nothing overflows – and yet, everything works.
The material absorbs, resists and slowly alters. A tension is born: between permanence and transformation, between immobility and movement.
The artistic gesture here is part of the long process of erosion, of discreet living, of memory in action.
What water whispers: matter forgets nothing.