I am a French-Brazilian visual artist, currently living… well, currently displaced between Paris, Brazil and Africa. In the last six years I’ve been working in what I like to call: “creation of ambients”, mainly through photography, video, projections and sound.
In my work I am concerned with the crossings between different media and the possibility to propose to the public a more perceptive and sensorial experience of space. Overlapping temporalities and states, my projects are thought to be presented
in specific conditions, taking into consideration the local history and possibilities of each place, as well as the public’s interaction.

Dealing with issues like memory, exile and loss, I search for intimacy between my own subjectivity and the viewer’s through the creation of spaces and objects as prompters
of remembering and feeling, not for fast consuming, but for attending.

When talking of memory I am not referring to “biographies” but to individual memories/stories that are emblematic of a collective situation. That’s the main
focus of the project “Displacements” (launched in Johannesburg, South Africa
in October 2001). Working with various groups of displaced people (refugees, exiles, internally displaced people) I am trying to detect the similarities of experiencing homelessness and estrangement in different situations. How visible are the scars left
by displacement? How do they affect the corporeal relations to our surroundings? The new Century is facing one of the most outstanding flows of migration in modern history with social and historical consequences still to be understood, but already, in a human scale the paradigms of exile, Diaspora, nation and home are being completely reshaped. By bringing faces to a shadow land of outlanders I wish to question this new paradigms and the social-political realm that define them.

Displacements is a work-in-progress where the process surpasses the resulting artwork. For me, art is above all a way to communicate, to educate and to exchange. More then an artist, in this project I am an interactive observer, an instructor, a producer. I humbly like to see myself as an inspirer who works through poetical processes. Every time we get a group together and people realize their hidden potential and that they can have power over the way they are represented, we are making a small step to narrow the gap between "us and the other."