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32 years old,

Lives and work in Paris.

 

Artist Statement  :

 

My works all explore a same running theme of Irreverence :  challenging an imposed decorum and revelling in one's own pre-established labels rather than having to apologise for them.

It's about self-acceptance through self-deprecation and satire.

 

We live in a society ruled by social conventions and labels with pre-established set of traits that would be construed as weak, weird, bad, or unacceptable. My work aims to use self-deprecation and satire as a way to own up to those labels rather that shy away from them, and thus, put on display the very thing that others would scorn at. By using satire as a weapon against one’s inner demons, but also by rejecting a pre-established set of codes of social conventions to break down a systemic derogatory social hierarchy.  It’s about owning up to one’s own short-comings and imposed labels, and refusing to apologise for them by revelling in them as part of one’s own identity. 

 

Along this narrative I explore different themes such as innocence lost, girlhood, nostalgia, rebellion and vice.

You have to look close at each drawing, to find clues hidden in the details as to what they’re really about :  the bright and girly colours may often hide a darker side. It is deceiving, which in a way is the very essence of appearances : too often are we seen through a sheen of perfection we aim to display to the world, hiding our darker truth. I focus on what it means to become one's self while refusing to be tamed and straying away from the idea of an unblemished self : It's about faults, and owning them. 

 

My works are done exclusively with ballpoint pen, as a deliberate choice.

There’s no going back, and I could slip up at the last minute. My goal was to show no fear in the face of failure, and accept the possible mistakes that come along the way as a part of the whole.

  

 

EXHIBITIONS           

 

2014   Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
 

2014   Brick Lane Gallery, London

 

2015    Slow Gallery, Paris

 

2016   Galerie Metropolis, Paris

 

2016   DRAWING NOW, The Contemporary Drawing Art Fair, Paris

 

2016   Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival, Chateau de Fernelmont, Belgium  

 

2017   DRAWING NOW, The Contemporary Drawing Art Fair, Paris

 

2017   School Gallery, Paris

2018   ART PARIS ART FAIR, Paris

2018   Soon Art Fair, Paris

2018   Frame Art Fair, Paris

2019   School Gallery, Paris 

2019   ART PARIS ART FAIR, Paris

2019   CONTEXT ART MIAMI, Miami

2020   LA ART SHOW, Los Angeles

2020   Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs

2021   ART PARIS ART FAIR, Paris

2021   CONTEXT ART MIAMI, Miami

2022   VENICE BIENNALE, Venice

 

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

Konbini 

DesignBoom

 

Juxtapoz 

 

Les Inrocks 

 

Etapes 

 

Buzzfeed 

 

Fubiz 

 

Dangerous Minds 

 

Neon Mag 

 

Tess Mag 

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