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Artist Biography / Artist Statement

I search every day, every night. My creative process, at the frontier of consciousness, is about allowing the unconscious to emerge, with black and white as a minimal structure.

In several stages, I managed to write on the wall where I paint: “Attack the paper… in order to reach softness.” It is intensity transformed into tenderness.

It is about giving life with all its complexities. In my search, I seek love of course, but I am compelled to flee. And to return. And to free myself.

My work has universal dimensions.
On life and death, on love and hate.
And on the idea that we are everything: child, man, woman, animal, plant, mineral…

There is also the idea that we are different, yet similar in the essential aspects of existence.

List of Previous Exhibitions

Upcoming:

2027 (to be confirmed)
Galeria Azur de Lucas Kokogian, Berlin, Germany.
Group exhibition.

April 2027
New York Art Fair with Galeria Azur de Lucas Kokogian and Vini Costa, New York, United States.

March 2027
Galleria Kookos by Hong Liu-Sertti, Helsinki, Finland.
Group exhibition.

December 2026
“Red Dot” Art Fair during Art Basel with Galeria Azur de Lucas Kokogian and Vini Costa, Miami, United States.

October 2026
Munch Art Fair with Galerie HELLIGKEIT by Luciana Grandi, Munich, Germany.

September 2026
Design Festa Gallery Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Group exhibition.

June 2026
Zurich Art Fair with Galerie HELLIGKEIT by Luciana Grandi, Munich, Germany.

May 2026
De bouwput de Dominyka, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Group exhibition.

April 2026
Carrousel du Louvre Art Fair with ARTIO Gallery by Bisa Bennett (Toronto, Canada), Paris, France.

February 2026
Galerie Saint-Roch with Marina Volpi (Artexpertise), Paris, France.
Group exhibition.

February 2026
Palazzo Pisani, “L’autre moi,” curated by Ludovica Dagna, Venice, Italy.
Group exhibition.

Past:

December 2025
Crypt Gallery with Marina Volpi (Artexpertise), London, United Kingdom.
Group exhibition.

December 2025
Galerie Artexpertise with Marina Volpi (Artexpertise), Cannes, France.
Group exhibition.

October 2025
Galeria Azur with Lucas Kokogian, Vini Costa, and Nadia Bautista, New York, United States.
Group exhibition.

October 2025
Galerie 86 with Hälsning Erika Wilhelmsson, Stockholm, Sweden.

April 2025
Galerie Art Nou, Barcelona, Spain.
Group exhibition.

April 2025
International Fine Arts Competition by Stefano Boschetti, Sartirana, Italy.

August 2011
Galerie 13, Montpellier, France.
Group exhibition.

June 2011
Galerie Le Confort des Étranges, Toulouse, France.
Group exhibition.

June 2011
La Celle Saint-Cloud Contemporary Art Biennale, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France.
Group exhibition.

December 2010
Musée Marzelles, “De l’humain finalement,” Marmande, France.
Solo exhibition.

October 2010
International Festival Factura 2010, “In arte veritas,” Villefranche-de-Lonchat, France.
Group exhibition with Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Hans Bellmer, Ben, Calder, David Hockney, Francis Toledo, Roland Topor, and others.

September 2010
Salon de Pontoise, Pontoise, France.
Group exhibition.

January 2010
Top 9 “The 9 Nominated Artists” by L’Oeil Neuf, Centre Christiane Peugeot, Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris, France.
Group exhibition.

November 2009
Salon de Lyon et Sud-Est, Lyon, France.
Group exhibition.

October 2009
Oeil Neuf, Centre Christiane Peugeot, Avenue de la Grande Armée, Paris, France.
Group exhibition and charity auction in support of L’Oeil Neuf, “Small Formats,” with Abraham Hadad, Frédéric Lund Ottesen, James Pichette, Jean Signovert, Lilly Masson, and others.

June 2009
“Arteva at La Maison Nantaise,” Arteva, Nantes, France.
Group exhibition.

June 2009
Salon de Chambourcy, Chambourcy, France.
First Prize in Painting.

October 2008
International Festival Factura 2008, “Humaine condition, 10 artists,” Villefranche-de-Lonchat and surroundings, France.
Group exhibition with Jean Rustin, Camille de Taeye, Michael Bastow, Bern Wery, and others.

September 2008
“Arts-Papier at the Manufacture des Tabacs,” Arteva and City of Nantes, Nantes, France.
Group exhibition.

September 2008
“In connection with Arts Papier 2008,” Galerie Anti Reflets, Nantes, France.
Group exhibition.

February 2008
Cultural Center of the City of Paris, La Jonquière, Paris, France.
Solo exhibition.

June 2007
Galerie Reg’art Confrontation, Rouen, France.
Duo exhibition with sculptor Franc Morvan.

April 2007
Galerie Felli, “Gallery Artists Hanging,” Paris, France.

January 2007
“Imprudent,” Maison de la Fontaine, Brest, France.
Solo exhibition; elected Talent of the Year by the City of Brest.

April 2006
Galerie Anti Reflets, “Painted between July and March 2006,” Nantes, France.
Solo exhibition.

June 2005
Galerie Anti Reflets, Nantes, France.
Group exhibition.