A piece of ice is graspable, it has defined boundaries. It is an object you can control, or at least you think you can. Because an ice cube will always slide off your hands. On the opposite, the air surrounding […]
A piece of ice is graspable, it has defined boundaries. It is an object you can control, or at least you think you can. Because an ice cube will always slide off your hands. On the opposite, the air surrounding […]
IMPERSONAL EXPERIENCE I wanted to make something both personal and completely impersonal. The idea behind this paradoxical thought was to make a painting with a patent lack of gesture. Hence, I choose to do it with dots. A dot has […]
« On en vient à aimer d’avantage son désir que l’objet de ce désir » F. Nietzsche. Notre société nous inculque à consommer sans faire de différence entre nos besoins et nos envies. Tout ce que l’on souhaite acquérir provient d’un […]
Introduction On a cold winter evening, a friend and I decided to explore Europe further east. The idea was to take a plane to Vienna, and then, using the local train to move to Bratislava and Budapest, following the Danube. […]
A brief history In the seventh century, Edinburgh was a stronghold. When the English captured it they called it Eiden’s Burgh (Eiden’s fort). Then it went back and forth between the Scots and the English, for centuries (sharing a small […]
What is Venice ? Venice is an attractive city, it’s hardly debatable. But what does it make it so ? Venice has two features that makes her unique. Location and history. You could argue that any city in the world […]
Unconscious attraction Amsterdam is the city I completely fell for, no questions asked. I went there several times and lived in the city center for over seven months. Something inherently dragged me into this city, like gravity would on a […]
At first sight, you would see a black square, linked to the canvas by four straight lines. But if you insist and take the title for granted, then you might start to see a bottomless white cubic box. If you see it, […]
Imagine yourself in a dark room, so dark that you can’t even see your own hands. You don’t know the spaces’ boundaries, the only thing you know is where the floor and the ceiling are, based on the actual gravity […]
Have you ever been in front of a painting or a photography for which the title was paradoxically : “untitled” ? Because it’s pretty common in museums and when you face it, a frustrating feeling emerges within you. You wonder […]
When you look at the painting from a distanced point of view, you can easily read the “peace” symbol, used by hippies during the Vietnam war. This symbol is powerful, everyone know its meaning, everyone can recognize its shape; he […]
At first glance, when you look at these two paintings, nothing may happen. Then you read the title, and you wonder why you are seeing one vertical rectangle and the other one horizontal, while the title is clearly stating […]
First of all, let’s put everything together. On one side, we have the well-known Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid who won the competition for the Olympic stadium in Tokyo for the 2016 games. On the other side, we have a large part […]
La curiosité est inhérente à l’espèce humaine. Depuis toujours, artistes, philosophes, scientifiques, mathématiciens, et autres esprits éclairés on cherché à expliquer la nature des choses. Le pourquoi précédé du comment est devenu un modèle de pensé commun à l’animal intelligent […]
«We have to simplify our perception, and the simplification is something which is very important for the model, if you have too many kind of things in the model, the model doesn’t say anything. That’s something we do in every […]