This series of collages made out of photographies organized on moving blankets is the displacement of the point of view from the window of my studio in the northern suburbs of Berlin.
My work during this residency (Atelier Haus de Prenzlauer Promenade) took for subject an abandoned construction site below the window of my studio.
Equipped with a camcorder, I entered into a relationship of daily observation with this space in transition. Each collage reveals a quality of the site that I observed, emphasizing a physical or poetic particularity that challenged me.
Linearity and repetition recreate a phrasing of very simple elements such as a piece of shiny thermal blanket moving in a puddle of water, or a twinkling, luminous glare on objects and material on the construction site.
I have developed in these paintings a work on light, brilliance, and it's absence, positioning the viewer in front of an image on which the light environment interacts.
These three assembled paintings recreate the dimension of the window from which they are inspired. The gesture of covering and discovering here takes on a metaphorical significance, this construction site having been a site of the Russian police services during the Cold War. My work there associated mourning with rituals/performance, taking the almost imperceptible variations on this site as witnesses and signs of a theater of war: signals, disappearances, dissimulations, covers, replacements... .