Born in 1996 in Paris, my artistic journey first took shape in the world of applied arts at the École Boulle, followed by graphic design and image printing at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, before becoming firmly rooted at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. This diverse education has enriched my relationship with imagery, materiality, and surfaces, influencing my approach to composition and visual storytelling.
My work explores a deep emotional tension between absence and reminiscence, influenced by theories on the psychic construction of childhood and by Saudade—a Portuguese sentiment blending nostalgia, longing, and melancholy. This elusive sensation imbues my work with a duality between attraction and distance, presence and erasure. Through painting, I examine the permeability between memory and imagination, between reconstructed recollections and altered realities, seeking to give form to the blurred moments that persist within us.
The domestic space of my childhood, saturated with accumulated objects, has profoundly shaped my perception of environment and form. This structured chaos has influenced my approach to imagery: layering, juxtapositions, and successive strata translate an attempt to excavate memory, where each addition or erasure becomes an act of intimate archaeology. This dialogue between accumulation and disappearance is at the heart of my practice, where memory is rebuilt only by being deconstructed.
While artists such as Hervé Télémaque, Philip Guston, and Michel Majerus inspire me through their use of sources and the way they reveal them, it is above all popular and generational codes that nourish my pictorial language. I explore a visual lexicon drawn from digital culture, graphic design, and contemporary visual culture. My work is steeped in a collective imagination, oscillating between the aesthetics of consumption, traces of the virtual, and fragments of a recomposed individual memory.
A key element of this exploration is video games—an inheritance from my childhood that has become a fundamental lens through which I approach imagery. This immaterial space, both familiar and elusive, questions our relationship to reality and fiction. Through it, I create a tension between virtual, real, and mnemonic spaces, interrogating how these dimensions intertwine and shape our perception of the world. Painting thus becomes a playground where I compose hybrid spaces, between immersion and rupture, contemplation and saturation.
Thus, my works function as fragmentary constructions where painting becomes a space for dialogue between past and present, materiality and transience. By playing with accumulation, structure, and erasure, I explore absence and the search for meaning through a visual language that oscillates between figuration and abstraction, narration and fragmentation. Each composition is a shifting territory, an unstable balance where memory is constantly transformed and redefined.