Artist's Statement
I’m a London-based performance artist, dancer and writer, originally from a small suburban town near Paris in France.
I make performances which are a combination of movement, videos and /or spoken words. They deal with the male body, its ideal vision, its stereotypes. They also deal with my personal relationship with my body and my identities as a performer, a foreigner and a gay artist.
At an early age, I immersed myself in French poetry, Expressionism and Cabaret and these influences informed most of the aesthetic as well as the staging of my first body of work. Since then, my interest in Butoh dance, Installation Art and Surrealism has led me to create more-movement-based pieces. It’s also led me to explore further filmmaking and screendance as a medium.
I see my performance work as a testimony, a public record of my constant evolution as a human being who has a vital need to explore his sexuality, to dissect his spirituality and to question his status within a society which seems to be more and more at ease with conformity while being in perpetual conflict with itself.
With my work, I still want to subvert the traditional representation of the male body; I still want to push boundaries and challenge the viewer’s expectations and his preconception of the moving body on stage or on screen. With my work, I also want to take my interests in instant composition, photography and reenactment even further and experiment more with the interconnections between space, time and the body in motion. All in relation to the various representations of the body.
Ultimately, at its core, I want my work to provoke thoughts and experiences which may be unfamiliar to spectators.
I make performances which are a combination of movement, videos and /or spoken words. They deal with the male body, its ideal vision, its stereotypes. They also deal with my personal relationship with my body and my identities as a performer, a foreigner and a gay artist.
At an early age, I immersed myself in French poetry, Expressionism and Cabaret and these influences informed most of the aesthetic as well as the staging of my first body of work. Since then, my interest in Butoh dance, Installation Art and Surrealism has led me to create more-movement-based pieces. It’s also led me to explore further filmmaking and screendance as a medium.
I see my performance work as a testimony, a public record of my constant evolution as a human being who has a vital need to explore his sexuality, to dissect his spirituality and to question his status within a society which seems to be more and more at ease with conformity while being in perpetual conflict with itself.
With my work, I still want to subvert the traditional representation of the male body; I still want to push boundaries and challenge the viewer’s expectations and his preconception of the moving body on stage or on screen. With my work, I also want to take my interests in instant composition, photography and reenactment even further and experiment more with the interconnections between space, time and the body in motion. All in relation to the various representations of the body.
Ultimately, at its core, I want my work to provoke thoughts and experiences which may be unfamiliar to spectators.
*Photography by Will Wilcox Photos and Guy Ivie Viewpoint Photography
