The Tableaux-reliefs refer to the experience of wide-open spaces, deserts and plains where the horizon seems infinite. These wide-open spaces where nothing can stop the spirit, where the gaze embraces a globality it recognizes, these wide-open spaces that reassure us, inviting us to melt into them and reminding us that everything is there and that we are part of it.
Each Tableau-Relief is composed of a layer of earth taken directly from the landscape and a layer of intense chromatic material more akin to paint. They reproduce an atmospheric world of colors, surfaces and textures in which we can project ourselves and dissolve.
The physical work evokes a dialogue between the body and the memory of an experience in the landscape, facing a natural scene or the immensity of the ocean. It celebrates the materiality of the work of art as an open door to an elsewhere of the order of sensation and a certain quest for freedom emancipated from the immediacy of life.
