About my work
Through various media — drawing, painting, textiles, installation, video, performance — I explore how silence and language, primarily poetry, create a space for reflection and dialogue with the world, both near and far.
Words, quotes from poems, their transformation into drawings or objects, the use of the sound of language and translation between languages and medias are perceptible elements in my work. I seek the substance of words in visual art and in writing — the way in which they permeate matter. Whether readable or not, visible or not, text provides structure.
I practice silence; it helps me sharpen my listening, my observation and my presence in the world.
Silence and words also evoke absence.
I work with fragments of rice paper, texts, reproductions of artworks and press photographs that contain traces of the world's turbulence. In a dialogue between these elements and art history, I assemble works using meticulous techniques such as hand-sewing, crocheting, or collage of tiny pieces of paper.
Faced with the commotion of the contemporary world, I continue to seek the meaning of artistic practice in dialogue with others, I keep asking myself, “What can art do?” Alone in my studio or together with artists with whom I collaborate, I strive to create a language that builds bridges toward others, toward the society in which I interact. Various practices converge in my life: my artistic and teaching practice, zazen (Soto Zen Buddhist meditation), and aïkido. What they all have in common is that they help me find an anchor in the world, foster respect and harmony with all living beings, and understand — through experience — the interdependent relationship of all that exists. In a way, my work materializes this notion.