Tricks & Tracks, 2025,
5 x 5,5 x 2,5m
Wood, cardboard, electronics, motors
7:11 min video.
From ruses to rails, from clever tricks to fleeting images.
Once forbidden, *photophony*—the art of photographing with a phone—has become part of the museum landscape. Screens multiply, selfies fill the space, and artworks circulate long before they are truly seen.
With Tricks & Tracks, we embrace this paradox. The installation is designed for the phone itself: it is the visitor, the explorer, the storyteller.What you discover is a backstage world of makeshift illusions, miniature theaters, and playful devices. Against the tide of AI-generated images, we reclaim the magic of the physical: the ingenuity of tricks, their fragile materiality, and the earliest enchantments of theater and cinema.
Commissionned by Le Bel Ordinaire Pau.
5 x 5,5 x 2,5m
Wood, cardboard, electronics, motors
7:11 min video.
From ruses to rails, from clever tricks to fleeting images.
Once forbidden, *photophony*—the art of photographing with a phone—has become part of the museum landscape. Screens multiply, selfies fill the space, and artworks circulate long before they are truly seen.
With Tricks & Tracks, we embrace this paradox. The installation is designed for the phone itself: it is the visitor, the explorer, the storyteller.What you discover is a backstage world of makeshift illusions, miniature theaters, and playful devices. Against the tide of AI-generated images, we reclaim the magic of the physical: the ingenuity of tricks, their fragile materiality, and the earliest enchantments of theater and cinema.
Commissionned by Le Bel Ordinaire Pau.
Panneau Panache, 2025
Woods, ropes, pulleys
(4x4x2m)
Through a pulley system echoing the visual effects of early stagecraft, a dozen colorful shapes—suspended as though sprouting from the greenery—spring magically to life. With each gesture of the passerby they intertwine or overlap, the walker becoming the puppeteer of fleeting scenes revealed to all onlookers.
Commissioned by the the Château de Fontainebleau for the exhibition Grandeur Nature II (05/2025 > 09/2025), Panneau Panache playfully recalls the first fireworks ever seen in France, held in the gardens of the Château de Fontainebleau in 1606.
Woods, ropes, pulleys
(4x4x2m)
Through a pulley system echoing the visual effects of early stagecraft, a dozen colorful shapes—suspended as though sprouting from the greenery—spring magically to life. With each gesture of the passerby they intertwine or overlap, the walker becoming the puppeteer of fleeting scenes revealed to all onlookers.
Commissioned by the the Château de Fontainebleau for the exhibition Grandeur Nature II (05/2025 > 09/2025), Panneau Panache playfully recalls the first fireworks ever seen in France, held in the gardens of the Château de Fontainebleau in 1606.
Cockpit, 2024
tinted wood, bearing
(2x1x1,5m)
Cockpit is a micro-architecture animated by babies who set in motion a hundred or so mechanisms fixed to the walls.
It's a two-sided structure, like a puppet theater coupled to a dashboard, where parents become spectators of the animations generated involuntarily or not by their children, on one side or the other of the capsule.
Commissioned by Milles Formes, Centre Pompidou
tinted wood, bearing
(2x1x1,5m)
Cockpit is a micro-architecture animated by babies who set in motion a hundred or so mechanisms fixed to the walls.
It's a two-sided structure, like a puppet theater coupled to a dashboard, where parents become spectators of the animations generated involuntarily or not by their children, on one side or the other of the capsule.
Commissioned by Milles Formes, Centre Pompidou
Fanions et carillons , 2023,
Mixed media installation
(4 x 2 x 7m)
painted wood, motor, silk, electronic
An automaton made up of a set of 14 pennants that are discovered inert, and which awaken in turn to create ephemeral forms that mutate, respond and compose themselves.
Like a harmony of chimes creating a melody, this ensemble creates a choreography at regular intervals. A symphony of fabrics.
Commissioned by l’Abbaye de Fontevraud
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Mixed media installation
(4 x 2 x 7m)
painted wood, motor, silk, electronic
An automaton made up of a set of 14 pennants that are discovered inert, and which awaken in turn to create ephemeral forms that mutate, respond and compose themselves.
Like a harmony of chimes creating a melody, this ensemble creates a choreography at regular intervals. A symphony of fabrics.
Commissioned by l’Abbaye de Fontevraud
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En Cascade, Mécanique Sablonneuse
2023
Mixed media installation
(11 x 3.5 x 4.5m)
A micro-architecture-automaton, made of paper and cardboard, using sand as its sole means of propulsion, without electricity, yet approaching the sophistication of electronic machines.
Part of the Mondes Nouveaux program, which supports artistic and contemporary creation.
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2023
Mixed media installation
(11 x 3.5 x 4.5m)
A micro-architecture-automaton, made of paper and cardboard, using sand as its sole means of propulsion, without electricity, yet approaching the sophistication of electronic machines.
Part of the Mondes Nouveaux program, which supports artistic and contemporary creation.
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