1. relief, 2012
site specific work, red natural iron oxide pigment, variable dimensions


relief is an organic and spontaneous site-specific intervention. Following the saltpetre traces, naturally growing on the wall, a natural iron oxide pigment* highlights a spontaneous cartography and retraces, by the simple act of lightly laying the pigment, the humid relief. Organic and elementary forms and shapes, recalling the cave paintings, evoke an imaginary map freely expanding and recreating itself.  *(iron oxide is an element historically present in the mines of the region)

2. paesi vari, 2011
cut-outs, series of 18, 20 x 20 cm
Lands, regions: existing, no longer existing, wanting to exist. “Paesi vari” are fragments of a larger reality or memory. These 18 cutouts of maps were taken from an old encyclopedia at a recycling plant. Removed from their context we are no longer able to discern their provenance. Cut-outs derive from a practice of digression, where the mind is free to wander and open to a chance to happen. Following perimeters, cutting along boundary lines, flipping and showing their reverse, new territories are suddenly created. These colourful cut-outs may cross multiple regions, or be filled by solid fragments of oceans or waters. Each image creates a new space and frontier, inviting us to reflect on what these colourful shapes represent. These constructed realities of “places” that signify not only physical space but historical and socio-political identities that can be defined and redefined and at each phase abstracted to form some new world or territory. paesi vari might be called an attempt of the discovery of the antipodes, an unannounced research that culminates in the discovery of its unprecedented proximity.

 

3. planètes, 2012
ink jet print, 3 photos, growing series, 50 x 50 cm, unique pieces
In planètes fragments of worlds, thus of images, deepen the exploration of the sensible world and reveal a possible cosmogony. Drops of rain on flowers and plants, little unseen zones of our vision, generate, through an experimental then methodical approach of cutting and blowing up, unknown planets, transpiring the colour of the plant welcoming this rainy fall.

 

4. on the way, 2011
cut-outs, series of 4, 50 x 70
on the way is a contemplative and vivid way through lands and territories. Human routes follow natural geographies. Maps are a way to get knowledge and to embrace a new territory. The shown routes, slowly cut and extracted from found old maps of Luxembourg, become a boundless and organic path.

 

5. bruyère (paesaggi vari), 2011
ink jet print, series of 33, 135 x 220 cm, poster, unique piece 
bruyère and terres question and explore legends, which are the necessary instrument used to read maps. Through magnification of originally small rectangles, classifying geological and territorial areas, the legend bruyère transforms itself into a map. The pigmentary quality of the old legend associates with the works relief and terres.

 

6. crateri (incontro su terra), 2012
meteorite, lava rock, image extracted from an encyclopaedia, wooden prop, 10 x 10 cm  
Craters (encounter on earth) is an imaginary association born from a study around the works planètes, relief, terres and more precisely on the land and on the terrestrial iron-made composition as well as on the magnetic field of the globe. Two kinds of craters exist on earth: the ones generated from the fall of meteorites (impact of astronomical objects) and the ones originated form the depth of volcanoes (the rupture of the planet’s crust). The approaching of these two minimal fallen and ejected elements evokes the complexity of unnoticeable aspects of life on earth.

 

7. strati, 2012
diptych, cut-outs’collage 20 x 20 cm                                                     
As maps, encyclopaedias offer a whole knowledge on a variety of human related subjects and topics. The ideal to embrace the most possible knowledge on every matter is expressed by this rich compendium of information. Strati is a diptych made of a collage of small cut-outs’ shapes extracted by an encyclopaedia: strati collect on the one hand different methods of constructing walls and on the other hand different styles of paving. Walls and tiling evoke an entirely human approach to territory and landscape. 

 

8. terres, 2012
natural earth pigments, magnetic support, 40 x 50 cm  
terres is an uncommon legend. These samples of terres are held by the simple magnetic force of attraction between the iron component of these natural earth pigments and the slightly magnetic support. Legends, which very often represent graphically geologies and territories with full or nuanced coloured shapes, are here substituted by physical and concrete natural elements they might normally describe (like soils). This fragile and mysterious composition, made of gravity and attraction, reflects on our representation of territories and lands.