Fanion Locomotion
2026,Wood, electronics,
motors, silk
6:30 min choreography.
Air seems like empty space. Yet as soon as something light enough moves through it, it reveals its presence: it resists, lifts, slows, carries, giving rise to ripples and swirls.
Seven automata set large pieces of silk in motion, their gestures responding to one another in a collective choreography. Their movements are programmed, but the resulting shapes remain subject to turbulence and air currents.
The fabrics thus become instruments for drawing in the invisible, giving form, for a few moments, to the air around them.
Commissioned by Les 3 CHA art centre, Châteaugiron.
Voûtes & Volutes
2025,8 x 8 x 3,6 m
Wood, electronics, motors, silk
6:00 min choreography
A whirling artwork suspended above visitors. It features about twenty articulated pennants mounted on a delicate frame of tinted wood. The still flags come to life one by one, creating fleeting shapes that shift, echo each other, and form a short choreography (6 min) at regular intervals. This textile installation is inspired as much by rhythmic gymnastics ribbon routines as by Loïe Fuller's iconic « Serpentine Dance. »
Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou x Grand Palais.
Panneau Panache
2025Woods, 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.
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.
Sfumato
2023,5 photographs
(50 x 61 cm)
giclée print on Hahnemühle Photorag
edition of 25
1 video (01:26s)
Series of 5 smoke drawings created without motors, electronics, computer-generated images or artificial intelligence.
Initiated by hand, the system conserves its energy thanks to a set of balances, weights and pulleys. The idea was to confront the chaos and unpredictability of smoke, and try to "program" it as best we could.
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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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