Axis Mundi (The world is into me)
2022

Video-poem (2’32’’) made from a dichroic film, sunlight and the chances of the wind, during my residency at Nat Art, in the region of the prehistoric caves of Altamira (Cantabria). "Axis Mundi (The world is into me)" suggests the refocusing of our relationship to the World within each individual. Because, if the world is in me, I can only take care of it. Manipulating the prismatic effects of natural light corresponds to the desire to re-enchant our vision of a world suffering from eco-anxiety. The proposal was to create a zone of symbolic passage between light and darkness, consciousness and ignorance, fluidity and fixity, so that the photographed or filmed moment operates a magical encounter between oneself and the world that one owes inside oneself.

LA CONSCIENCE DES LIMITES (ICARE)
2013 - 2015

Photos and video documenting the viewer’s participation in this interactive video installation, connected in real time to Google Earth. He is invited to experience an unusual mental and physical relationship with the "Google" image of the planet as soon as he enters the projected image. The fragile and futile aspect of this reconstructed image is underlined by the simultaneous projection on the wall of an inflatable balloon floating in the sky when spectator takes place in the center of Google's image. The search for control of a certain stability of the projected image results in a kind of " playfull attempt for taking control of this ideal image the Earth"

Online interactive video installation using Google Earth:
Two video projectors, one Mac-mini, ultrasonic sensors and webcam, Internet connection, sound and canvas
5 x 5 metres (on ground) / 3 metres (height of sensors at the ceiling)

GRAVE, Victoriaville, Qc. 2013

Langage Plus, Alma, Qc. 2014

Galerie R3, UQTR, Trois-Rivières, Qc. 2015

(ANT)ARCTICA WALKING
2015

A 3.5 minute video-performance produced during the group exhibition “Régénération” (galerie R3, Trois-Rivières, Qc), and presented as part of the exhibition “Sur [Espiral] Polar”. As an implied reference to the first steps on the Moon, this video focuses on the relation of the artist’s body with the white area of the blue Planet: Antarctica (where he has been invited by the DNA , Argentina, to carry out an art residency in 2007).

Sala exhibición de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Curator: Andrea Juan

CONFLUENCES
2009

This installation strives to create a virtual connexion between two geographical locations, on the same latitude, and which are related to the artist biography: La Rochelle in France and Trois-Rivières in Québec. Together, the Google Earth images, the geographic coordinates (GPS), the sun and the sea images, shape the sequence projected onto a white arch made of plexiglas.  

Video projection on translucide white Plexiglass
200 x 30 cm

EN PERDRE LE NORD
2008

This project was produced after having taken part at the Arte en Antarctica (DNA – Argentina) residency. In a poetic tone, the artwork recaptures the metaphor of the unknown territory where human beings migrate to an inhospitable space. The linear structure of the dome is refering as well to the protection that every living being is searching, than to the primary architecture useful to any human conquest of a new territory. The inflatable globe with its geopolitical image, reproduced in a projected animation, symbolizes the unavoidable collective and individual space that encompasses us all: the WORLD. One of the two videos revisits a “performance” executed on the island of Marambio, Antarctic Peninsula, in March of 2007. The second videogram is an animation of the globe overlaying a wall drawing of an androgynous figure, and evolving in relation to the sound of a human breath and to a cold wind blowing.

Installation-projection: two videograms (5-min. 25 sec. loop), sound, wall drawing and inflatable balloons
Approx. 5 x 5 metres

See also section “PERFORMANCES” (more photo and video work)