Favorites

Favorites Exhibit from January 22nd to March 1st 2016

The Favorites – the King’s mistresses – had a strong but sometimes fragile position, and I have always been fascinated by this ambiguity, whatever the court.

I am moved by the tragic and aesthetic duality of certain fates sealed by love, hate or power situations, often filled with intrigue and danger.

My Favorites are made of folds, full and empty zones, often holding by a thread, always with black parts conflicting with the colours.

Opening Thursday 21st January 2016 at 7:00 p.m.

Exhibit from January 22nd to March 1st 2016

La galerie de l’Instant
46, rue de Poitou
75003 paris

 

Marie Antoinettes

Marie Antoinettes exhibition from November 18th 2014 to January 6th 2015

I have known Marie-Louise, with her pearly grey coat enhanced with canary yellow points, and also Marie-Elisabeth, with her red hair and dishevelled look, who basked in the sun every morning atop a dunghill.
I grew up on the farm with those hens. They were my female companions. I gave them titles. I dreamt of them as duchesses, countesses, princesses and queens.
I would watch them coming and going in the farmyard, and imagine they were spying on each other, looking up and down at each other and envying each other.
I would listen to their cackling, chattering, gossiping and philosophising.
At the time, Marie-Antoinette was just a hyphenated first name.
When I made her acquaintance years later my countryside was far away, and Versailles was closer.
When I hear her name today time suddenly stands still. My head bows instantly. Everything becomes silent. I hear fabrics rustling and I know she’s coming.
Marie-Antoinette does not walk, she dances.
Marie-Antoinette does not talk, she sings.
Marie-Antoinette has no body, she has no face.
I do not dress Marie-Antoinette. She appears behind the folds, in turns ominous and reassuring.
Mother, sister, friend, lover… with impressive figures, always fragile, and with the retreat possibility that I offer them for protection.
In a spontaneous stroke, I compare these folds with possible moments and emotions from her life. Then I fill her character with colours – compliments – to thank her for agreeing to spend some time with me.
Exhibition from November 19th to December 3rd 2014
Opening Tuesday 18th November at 7:00 p.m.

La galerie de l’Instant
46, rue de Poitou
75003 paris

Exhibition from December 20th to January 6th 2015
Le Pop-up Store
Le Paris d’Anvers
Vlasmarkt 30, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Opening December 19th at 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition from Thursday to Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m..