What in your opinion defines a work of art? And moreover, what could be the features that mark the contemporariness of an artwork?
If a work of art should have a definition I would say that it is before anything else the result of a succession of decisions. What is fascinating is that today, in our contemporary society, a piece of art isn't definable and shouldn't be. Since Brancusi's trial and Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, what used to be the criteria of a piece of art until the beginning of the 20th century are completely outdated, like the question of the beautiful, the reproducible etc ... Rightly, art has evolved enough to be able to say that it is a totally open and surprising thing, material or immaterial. The possibilities are infinite.
Is there any particular way you would describe your identity as an artist but also as a human being in dynamically changing, unstable times? In particular, does your cultural substratum/identity form your aesthetics?
I think that my identity as a human being is indivisible from my identity as an artist. What defines my work is deeply linked to all my experiences as a human being, where I grew up, the places I visited, in which school I studied, the books I read etc ... For example, as a french artist who lived 6 years in Strasbourg, the proximity with the german artistic culture has influenced my work. A lot of my favourite artists are german : Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach, Grunewald, Hans Holbein, Caspar Friedrich, Otto Dix, Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and I could quote many more.
You descibe the stages of your artistic in a following way: first molding a part of the elements which form your model, then the installation in you atelier and the drawing in the final stage.What is the role of technique in your practice? In particular are there any constraints or rules that you follow when creating?
I wouldn't say rules or constraints, on the contrary. Even if my process of creation, as we said molding the elements which compose my installation, may seem to be tedious or constraining, I feel way more free in my practice because I work from life. I used to paint and draw from photographs I took or found on the internet but I felt very limited working from pictures where the space is flattened and the framing imposed. When I work from my model in my art studio, I can move around my installation and choose my composition. If I want to add an element to the installation even if the drawing has already begun I will do it. I don't get stuck in a idea of what my drawing will look like. Quite the opposite, when I start to draw I don't have a precise picture in mind of the result, I let myself be surprised by the accidents on the paper, the superimpositions and the erasures.
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