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I started photographing walls in 1997 when I joined the Faculty of Toulouse Le Mirail, in Applied Arts : the richness of surfaces, lines, shapes, reliefs and colors in interaction ... and all these words left by passers-by. Spontaneous compositions resulting from all this that «jumped out at me», traces of human action, time that passes... I am passionate about walls and ruins. They are a paradox: they shout or whisper.

They expose where they protect. They can arouse fear or curiosity. They soak up life and testify. They allow communication but can also break it. The wall is not only a silent component of architecture: "wall matter" speaks and it is a kind of living memory.

The wall is a call to look, to contact, to trace. I consider painting, on the one hand as a mode of translating what the walls tell me, on the other hand as a way of creating my own walls. Initially abstract, my practice evolved with the use of stencil, first used in the street. I cut my stencils from photographs that I work, sometimes beforehand, by contrasting them. On the canvas I seek a mixture: movement, a dynamic material, forms that struggle or yield to erasure. Moreover, my technique is mixed: I use acrylic paint, inks, pastels, aerosol cans and cement sometimes. I juxtapose and build dualities of materials and colors...or complementarities. My initial training being scientific, my practice is also inspired by the process of investigation, supplemented by techniques learned during my artistic training.