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, and the energy that circulates between the visible and the invisible.
Water is present without being represented. It can be sensed in the undulations, textures, and density of the blue. It absorbs, pulses, and retains.
Its central element is a unique enclosure, designed to diffuse a mixture of music and aquatic sounds. Created in partnership with Pierre Lemariey, a sound engineer originally from Normandy and founder of Long Play Pro Audio, based in Brussels, it becomes both a painting and a sound transducer. The sound does not comment on the image: it extends its gesture and becomes matter.
For the musical creation, Manuel Lefèvre collaborated with Fakear, an internationally renowned electronic musician from Caen. His universe intertwines with painting, opening up a sensory space where image and vibration form a single presence.
Presented for the first time at the Saint-Nicolas church in Caen, this work is part of the exhibition L’eau vue par les artistes (#MillénaireCaen2025 – September), resonating with the architecture of the place 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.