My work is shaped by thinkers and artists who challenge fixed categories and expand how we understand the physical world. Donna Haraway and Karen Barad question the boundaries between human and non-human, matter and meaning, while Gaston Bachelard explores the poetics of materiality. Scientists and authors like Kip Thorne and Stanislaw Lem bridge physics and speculation, and artists such as Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, David Altmejd and Allison Schulnik embrace metamorphosis and the surreal — impulses that deeply inform my practice, and occasionally reassure me that confusion is, in fact, a method.

 

I build images from fragments — fragments of matter and memory, collected from personal experience, observation, and cultural references. My paintings are collages — ceramic, pencil, oil — associated through an intuitive process of assembling and reassembling forms. Rooted in the legacies of Process Art and Post-Humanist thought, my work embraces material transformation and cyclical making. Composite figures emerge from this exploration, dissolving boundaries between human and non-human, natural and artificial, and questioning the conditions of life and its evolution — or, at least, trying to make sense of the chaos.

 

We are living in a time defined by transition — energetic, technological, geopolitical, ecological. Everything is shifting, unstable, in flux. As part of my methodology, paintings built from fragments shift into animations, where forms disintegrate and recombine following the strange logic of dreams. Frame by frame, they mutate and adapt. I see these transitions as fertile ground: it is within instability that the most unexpected alliances and possibilities are born.

 

The resulting films are not endpoints but catalysts: they crystallise into ceramic sculptures, evolve into paintings from new perspectives, and loop back into fresh animations. Each form carries the memory of the last; each mutation holds the trace of what came before.

 

This cyclical process — from image to animation, from animation to object — mirrors how I understand life itself: not as a linear progression but as a dynamic network of transformations, relationships and encounters — a continuous rehearsal for the futures we haven’t yet figured out how to imagine.

 

La singularité

La singularité is a multidisciplinary project composed of a large-scale triptych (11 × 5 feet), a 4:20 min animation film, a series of mix-media paintings and a series of life-size ceramic sculptures. The work explores the origins of life through a speculative lens, drawing inspiration from astrophysics and surrealist cinema.

Spaghettification
Glazed stoneware. 41 x 40 x 24 in. 2020

Maquette - detail
Glazed stoneware. 17 x 7 x 8 in. 2021

The project was particularly influenced by the Rosetta–Philae mission and Jean-Pierre Bibring’s studies on Mars, which propose that water carried by comets may have seeded life on Earth. This scientific speculation becomes, in my work, a metaphor for genesis, transformation and the entangled conditions of survival.

Triptych “Casse-têtes”
Pencil, acrylic and oil on paper marouflé on separate wood panels, and assambled. 11 x 5 ft. 2018

Excerpts from the animated film La singularité
Drawings, pencil on paper, colored digitally. 4:20min. 2019.

Paradise Earth. Oil painting. 36 x 24 in. 2022

Casablanca. Glazed stoneware. 40 x 9 x 9 in. 2024

La singularité Ceramic scuptures installed in a river in Canada. 2023

The project also resonates with the films of Maya Deren, especially Meshes of the Afternoon, where dance and gesture become vehicles of metamorphosis. By merging astrophysical research with surrealist strategies, La singularité situates itself within a lineage of contemporary art concerned with the intersections of science, myth and material experimentation. It addresses global concerns about the fragility of ecosystems and the origins of life, while affirming the role of art in imagining futures that are at once poetic and speculative.

View of the exhibition Jardins d’Anaglyphes - Maison de la Culture Saint-Laurent. Montréal, 2024.

Visual Darwinism

Visual Darwinism is an ongoing project that explores how humans are both shaped by and embedded within the ecosystems they inhabit. It began with six animated clips where figures and landscapes, derived from large-scale paintings, continuously metamorphose into one another. These drawings evolved into clay sculptures, later digitised through photogrammetry, opening a dialogue between analogue and digital, physical and virtual.

The Wedding (detail). Oil, pencil and glazed stoneware on wood panel. 5 x 3.5 ft. 2022

La vie fugitive. Oil and glazed stoneware on wood panel. 5 x 7.5 ft. 2023

No Survival, Only Entanglement. Animation of drawings. Colored pencils on mylar paper. 24 x 16 in. 2025

Hybrid figures — from ancient mythological chimeras to today’s cyborg assemblages — trace an evolving history of how we understand ourselves in relation to the non-human. Occupying the in-between of nature and artifice, life and machine, they embody the tension and potential of transformation. My practice builds on this legacy, using hybridity as a method to question fixed categories and imagine new constellations of matter, body and technology.

Biophilia. Gouache, oil, pencil and glazed stoneware on wood. 7.5 x 5 ft. 2022

Solar Storm (detail). Oil and glazed stoneware on wood panel. 5 x 3.5 ft. 2022

Fair Trade Banana Dream. Glazed Stoneware. 6 x 5 x 3 in. 2023

Currently, I am recreating these animations on paper, transforming what was once digital into a tactile, material process of drawing and erasure. In this exploratory phase, each frame is created and destroyed, on the same sheet of paper, replaced by another similar yet different one — a study of transformation and becoming, revealing how life evolves through constant renewal and relation.

The project resonates with Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway and Donna Haraway’s Simians, Cyborgs and Women, thinkers who challenge fixed categories and reveal the entanglement of matter, meaning and agency. By weaving together analogue labour, digital tools and open-ended possibilities born from every action, Visual Darwinism addresses urgent questions of adaptation, survival and coexistence in an age of ecological collapse and technological acceleration.

Les Bienfaiteurs. Digital drawings, clay-motion and photogrammetry. 2023

For the next phase, each frame of an animated sequence will be drawn on separate large-scale sheets of paper, but retaining the ghosts of all their previous images, layering alternate possibilities, memory and disappearance into visible traces.