Photomanipulation 3rd place winner

Gaston Bachelard wrote in Water and Dreams, “Art is grafted nature. [...] It is the graft which can truly provide the material imagination with an exuberance of forms”. This idea of graft best describes what inspire me, my desire to merge different life forms, to create hybrid beings and find myself an imaginary body.
I am trying to create images having the texture of dreams, to incubate speculative landscapes made of collisions and fantastic amalgams. The observation of nature excites the most conflicting emotions: puzzlement, repulsion, surprise or delight. It is a gushing spring of nightmares and reveries. These ambivalences are very potent stimuli and bear innumerable transpositions. I think my most evocative discoveries were at the juncture of such contradictory feelings, exhibiting a strain. Materializing the simultaneous processes of creation and destruction reveal the beauty of life cycles. Taming your own demons, using obsessions and anxiety to breed beauty, is exhilarating.

Born in 1974, I grew up in France near Paris. I lived in Paris, Rouen, Montpellier and Toulouse, but also in China and in the Philippines. I have been an independent graphic designer since the early 2000s.
I love drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and plastic arts. I studied three years at the Beaux-Arts school, in Toulouse and later in Cergy-Pontoise.
Previous exhibitions:
Lulu Mirettes Gallery in Toulouse – Group exhibition “Memento”, and “Revu et corrigé”, end of 2012.
Laureate of the ManifestO festival 2013 in Toulouse.
Centre Henri Desbals in Toulouse – Solo exhibition from October to November 2013.
Laureate of the Festival Boutographies in Montpellier, 14th edition, 2014
Médiathèque de Tournefeuille – Solo exhibition in 2015, guest of the ManifestO Festival.

Gaston Bachelard wrote in Water and Dreams, “Art is grafted nature. [...] It is the graft which can truly provide the material imagination with an exuberance of forms”. This idea of graft best describes what inspire me, my desire to merge different life forms, to create hybrid beings and find myself an imaginary body. I am trying to create images having the texture of dreams, to incubate speculative landscapes made of collisions and fantastic amalgams.