RETROVISION

I love the hidden stories, the ghost towns, the repeated impacts, the extinguished fires, the awkward decorations of man, whom I try to understand. All these webs of materials, shapes and meanings appear to me as abstract works of art. The involuntary vestiges left by man on his environment are generally invisible prosaic archives which appeal to me. Many of my previous series centre on that field of investigation, with a slightly different perspective for each. What matters to me is the way we see rather than what we see at first glance. I don’t have the eyes of the ethnologist or the sociologist who define a field or an object by ridding them of any projection. On the contrary, I claim to be surprised and inspired by the visible because, depending on the angle, it can communicate with the powers of the spirit and the imagination.