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Textual works

The ".txt" series constitutes a corpus where language becomes plastic matter. Each piece explores tension between visibility and erasure through fragments from popular culture, philosophy, or cinema. Text is not only read but seen, perceived as trace, erasure, or silence. "Repentir (.txt)" uses blood and lampblack, "Backup (.txt)" reuses a Terminator line through rubbing, "Disparaître ici (.txt)" recycles words written with finger on fogged mirror in two Bret Easton Ellis novels. These works explore language as space of projection, ritual, and reminiscence, where each word becomes passage site between visible and invisible.

_AI-generated text

"Words are also lines, (...) stripes through which to see without seeing anything.

Jacques Derrida.

From Programmed Obsolescence as a Vital Principle, to Assassination as a Vow of Eternity.

Sound performance installation - 2mn26s

Translation:

In schizophrenia, there is sometimes the appearance of a delusion, that of the 'influencing machine.' That is, the delusional conviction in the patient that what is happening in their body (sensations, eruptions, pains, erections, etc.) is 'manufactured' by a machine manipulated by persecutors to make them suffer."        
Synopsis.        
A paranoid sense of distrust circulates in the air. The atmosphere is charged with a terror that contaminates the population by inhalation, dooming humanity to its programmed self-destruction in a

spiral of growing madness. The population is in a state of crisis. Its incivility and ordinary madness, its multiple phobias regarding differences—physical, political, cultural, religious—characterized by an indifference to the suffering of others, lead public authorities to channel the nascent spirit of revolt. Educational messages for the population, on behaviors to adopt according to places and situations, subtly infiltrate the public space: do not smoke, keep to the right, yield the right of way, hold the handrail, turn off your mobile phone, validate your transport ticket, report any abandoned object, you are liable to be controlled and searched at any time...        Since the registration via the birth of the national identity card which, according to Giorgio Agamben, would be intended to divest the individual of responsibility in society and, consequently, to disengage them from all local politics, governments continue their program via an infantilizing educational project that would allow for the establishment of a totalitarian-type security framework, intended to control the masses. Thus, the voice of the people would be replaced by a large oppressive machinery whose deliberately overcomplicated workings are justified by an elitist science of globalization. If all infantile behavior is characterized by the rejection of rules and authority, we would be able to think that the world is not going mad. Nor would it lack education, even if more of it would lead it to emancipate itself from this power, rather than to revolt. When the people suffer, they react and turn against their masters, by instinct of survival, like a cornered beast...

Trailer 

​Video single-band

Work in progress since 2011. Appropriation of texts from film trailers and philosophical texts.

High Hopes project, from the events happened in Amityville in 1974.
Repentance, refere to "I will not make anymore boring art" by J. Baldessari

Repentance (.txt)
Blood and black smoke on paper

Backup refere to the movie "Terminator"

Backup (.txt)
Lead pencil on paper. Rubbing. Replica from the Terminator, a film about time travel.

 

​Sending anonymous postcards.

​Sending anonymous postcards.

 

Not available, De Maria(.txt) c-print_120/80cm

Not available, De Maria(.txt)
c-print_120/80cm

No signal

No signal (.txt)
c-print_80/150cm

Scratches on school notebooks
"perdu de vue", illuminated sign "lost sight of

lost sight of (.txt)
Illuminated sign _40/60cm

Vanish here, after "Less than zero" and "Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis

Vanish here (.txt)
 

Adhesive _Reuse of "Less than zero", a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, in which the words written with a finger are revealed on a fogged mirror, words that will be reused 20 years later by the author, on an advertising poster in his novel "Lunar park".

Coming soon (.txt)
Single-band video loop

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