About 'Thresholds'
The smaller scale works in this project are informed by significant upheavals that have taken take in the lives of people that find themselves subjugated to society's margins due to their nationality, political activities, mental health or addiction. Often depicted through 'on the cusp' objects they have described, such as doors or windows, they evoke liminal spaces, loss but also a nostalgia for what once was.
But some of the works also reflect on the nature of larval states more generally when identities overlap and shift into another. On a small scale it could be a leaf decomposing into the soil. On a larger scale it could be the consequences of climate change or when a society moves from democracy to autocracy.
It is not possible to see or precisely empirically measure when such transitions have occurred - they are mysterious and directly undetectable which endows them with a mysterious quality. Rather we have to imply their occurrence through consequences, by-products or traces left behind - a shaft of light, reflection of sunlight or impression in a wall.
Removing the subject from our attention liberates and unfolds the background often concealed and yet very much present. For a moment, the effect is freed from its cause, and the object becomes the subject - a more independent agent. Some works draw attention to this ambiguity, which superimposes two dimensions; others emphasize their imprecision and subjectivity.
Ces œuvres explorent les moments de transformation, ces instants fugaces où l'identité bascule. Utilisant des symboles comme les portes ou les fenêtres, l'artiste capture ces états transitoires où une forme devient une autre. Ces mutations sont imperceptibles, presque métaphysiques. On ne peut les saisir que par leurs traces : un rayon de lumière, un reflet, une légère empreinte. Elles échappent à toute mesure rationnelle, relevant plus de l'intuition que de l'observation. En déplaçant le regard du sujet principal vers son environnement, l'artiste révèle des dimensions cachées. L'arrière-plan devient soudain protagoniste, l'objet se libère de sa fonction première. Certaines œuvres jouent sur cette ambiguïté, brouillant les frontières entre ce qui est et ce qui devient.