“My work, which I define as ‘mixed media,’ explores the porous boundary between materiality and virtuality, between illusion and trace. Through a process of appropriation and deconstruction, I primarily question the contemporary iconography of the body.
By diverting idealized figures from fashion and cinema—true sources of refuge—I seek to cast them into a dialectic of sensibility, into my intimacy, my modesty.
My hybrid compositions emerge from an alchemy in which the original image, subjected to a series of manipulations—crumpling, layering, digital alteration—transforms into a shifting imprint, hovering between simulacrum and mnemonic resurgence.
Far from being a mere exercise in détournement, my work engages with questions around the permanence and evanescence of desire, and the ways in which representations inscribe themselves into our collective imagination before being absorbed, consumed, and regenerated.
Like a tidal surge, my process oscillates between erasure and revelation: through the materiality of paint, splashes of gold, or altered textures, I disrupt the smooth surface of the image, turning it into a site of tension. I aim to provoke an irrepressible urge to touch, to probe the roughness of the real beneath the artifice. And yet, this gesture is doomed to remain unfulfilled: the image remains inaccessible, its mystery intact.” Marie Minot.