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ART WORKS & EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

 

THE GAMING ROOM

THE SANATORIUM GALLERY 2021

NIGHT MUSIC 1

 (CIA Game)

Wall paper folio cut / 800x276cm / Ed. 1/3, 2021

NIGHT MUSIC 2

(Dow Jones, S&P, Nasdaq, EuroStoxx 50, Dax, CAC 40, FTCE 100, Ibex 35...)

Wall paper folio cut / 600x276cm

Ed. 1/3, 2021

DÉCORS À RÉACTIVER

 Post-poetry video, 2021

CHAOS GAME N°2

Table, Led, HD print on Hahnemulhe photo rag smooth paper. Ed. 1/3, 2021

RUINES, RUINS, RUINEN...

HD print on Hahnemulhe photo rag smooth paper. Ed. 1/3, 2021

Coronavirus spread sinks world stock markets - 1 & 2

Tapestry: sylver ink painted on bazin (African damask textile) 2021

142 cm x 210 cm

 

 

 

 

MAGNESIUM SKY

In "Fragments of a hologram rose" exhibtion, Istanbul

 

I LIVE!

IN FACT, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED!

Athens, Greece. October-December 2021.

CounterPublics / Soft protocols, spatial narratives for counter-futures

Video: click here

 

CHAOS GAME

(Haïtian Revolution)

In Sugar of the East, Galerie La Box, Bourges, 2020-2021

Curator : Ferenc Gróf (Société réaliste) / Photos © François Lauginie

THE DORMANT COLONY

Solo exhibition in Sanatorium gallery, 2016

 

 

PRESERVE DEMOCRACY

150 x 150 cm, Installation with 40 medicine bottles, liquid detergent, stickers and neons, 2016

ASIA

120 x 110 cm, Oil painting on canvas, 2016

KILL BOX

A4 (US army tactical documents), neons. 2016

INTER CAETERA DIVINAE

(Among other…to the Divine)

Engraving and painting on aluminum board

36 x 38 cm, 2016

 

 

LEVIATHAN

Matter, form, power

Laser engraving on aluminium , 2014

247 EUROPEAN REVOLTS

This piece presents a graph of the 247 social revolts that have taken place  across european union countries from 2011 to 2014.

 

MIRROR OF THE REVOLTS #1

(Ikea shelves, mirrors, and engraved metal boards), 150 cm x 60 cm, 2014

The dates, locations and geographical coordinates of three of the most recent and significant revolts that happened in 2014 are engraved on metal plaques fixed under each shelf.

DRONE

Video projection on 6 pink liquid detergent bottles, 2014

Recorded by a US hunting drone in Afghanistan and later diffused on the Internet, this video is projected on a wall composed of 6 pink liquid soap bottles.

RUINS

Burned book, neon light. 70 x 70 cm.

With a « self-autodafé » the book Ruins, written in 2013 by the artist, (science & political fiction) had been destroyed and burned. In a « mise en abime » dynamic, the book set up in a self fiction and creates a kind of archeology of the futur. 2014

 

StrobFREUD (Civilization and Its Discontents)

Installation: Strobe, chains, drawing with graphite on a piece of rubber

Drawing of the original frontispiece of the Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents » combined with a strobe light.

DRONES DRESSER

120x120cm. 2014

16 drones names applied on 16 standard domestic plates. The drones, unmanned aerial vehicles mostly used by the US army (and numerous other countries) during Middle East wars, became the hi-tech tools of a new barbarian Western remote-controlled domination, acting dangerously out of the conventional war rights.

The drones names written on the plates come from U.S.A., France, Europe, China, Pakistan, Turkey, Germany, Israel, Russian, and U.K. They mostly Summons mythological references.

WheelXANAX

Meditative wheel composed of anxiolytic drugs boxes. The industrial pharmacopoeia creating the contemporary post-Fordist psychotropic psyche is represented by a meditative wheel, kind of techno-mystical graphic medium.

Lake Gozha Tso/Lake Zabuye/Lake Zahri Namco/Lake Rakshastal

4 wooden tables, 4 inkjet print on fine art paper. Each table 50 x 50 x 105 cm , 5+1 AP. 2014.

Four Tibetan lakes are depicted as mapped territories with precise borders whereas they belong to a natural register with fluctuating borders due to their liquid nature.

CONFLICT PARK (FORMULA 1 ISTANBUL PARK)

Print on vinyl, 300 cm x 200 cm, wood, Art Beat Istanbul, 2013

TABULA RASA

(LE FRESNOY)

Environnement-installation, poèmes numériques, scénographie de théâtre.

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