The “Compositions” project is a series of paintings reprensenting urban scenes invaded by abstract shapes. The paintings vary in size and are painted in a variety of mediums, including acrylic and oil. The series offers a realistic style of depicting familiar places where a new “actor” seems to intervene, an abstract form that floats above the composition. The works are painted in a heterogeneous style that is characteristic of my work, where multiple ways of painting coexist. With their deconstructed appearance, the paintings are composed with “windows” or “holes” where defferent realities coexist. And it is on these stages that the “actors” come to life: characters, shapes, blotches tell of a changing world, a new world.

This series is a continuation of a practice of dialogue with the humanities. Inspired and nourished by texts in philosophy, sociology, and literature, I strive to create innovative works based on the contamination between media and ideas. After exploring the sociological notion of “mutation” in the “Empire” series, inspired by a book of the same name by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, a line of questioning was born from my encounter with the thought of Bruno Latour. Started as a questioning of modernity and the “Empire” in its colonialist and imperialist aspects, Latour’s thought led me to consider new actors in this theater: the entirety of the non-living. In this dramaturgy, the modern world discovers that the entirety of the non-living (climate, geology, etc.), previously seen as a “nature” to be studied and a as resource, suddenly becomes an actor. A very real actor in the world.

My project is a series of stagings of this “actor,” this hybrid, this monster, this blotch that comes to insert itself into the polished and clean world of benevolent modernity. This series of compositions is also an evocation of themes dear to Bruno Latour, the idea of ​​a world that we must “compose” from new hybrids, living or non-living, and not in a purifying vision of a scientific modernity. Thus, by taking up themes and ways of painting that are dear to me, I try to evoke new, hard to name issues. Representation, abstract painting, drawing appeal as much to our senses and our nervous system as to our intelligence and our understanding. Created in a form of programmed improvisation, the successive layers overlap and reveal the work of composition and improvisation.