A finished work of art has often seemed petrified or dead to me.
So I tried to explore the possibility of an additional experience, coming after the usual stages of completion. In this way, one can imagine that the paintings are linked by their own nature to the idea of movement and encounter.
The costume
It is made of two pieces of cloth, a cowl, two boots and two mittens. The whole costume is made of raw cotton to fit my body.
My primitive idea was to exhibit and put aside the usual cultural stances.
This is the reason for the anonymity of gender and age due to the obliteration of identity and the wild Assumption of a "sacred" place chosen for the exhibition. The entire work of art lives like this, travelling with me. The paintings change according to my gestures or the climate and resonate with the place where they appear.
The entire cloth changes keeping indelible traces of the contact with the earth or the vegetation of the places which have been visited.
Volo habilis
It is a travelling work of art equipped with a cover. The principal of a mobile trunk enables the realization of the tension of the canvas and its suspension in most places. This mobility enables a shifting relationship with the spaces of the improvised exhibition and underlines the wish to exchange with the spectators.
Galilet
Basalt pebble found in La Réunion in 1998 and equipped with a cat-collar.
Since then this pet pebble called Galilet accompanies me on my travels. Its presence in the heart of the environments I have visited reveals certain aspects unnoticed until then.
In this way, it is the tourist himself, through his personality who constructs what he visits.