Memory and time are my two obsessions. How can we capture an object, an instant, soon disappearing? The starting point of my sculptures is always a fleeting, forgotten or endangered object, a witness to the passing time. When you think about it, the present moment has already passed.
Living in Shanghai for six years, I have been the witness of a strong mutation, the modernization destroying old traditional objects and buildings, ways of living. In the 1950’s in Paris, the city was also in the process of getting rid of the old to embrace modernity. During this time, photographers immortalized the disappearing beauty of the city. As photographers do photography, I do “objectography”. In Shanghai I collected things that are handcrafted (stools, door lintels, bricks) and cast selected pieces in bronze to make them timeless. These forgotten objects are the staple ingredients of my creation. I combine embedded text and everyday objects to question the mutation of cities and of the fading of the past to ask “What will we remember from our past?”
