In Ways of Seeing Through
I’ve always been drawn to how space, texture, sound, and form can carry meaning. This section gathers experiments in expression, moments where material and idea meet to evoke, provoke, and resonate.
Beyond The Illusion - audiovisual disturbances
The title hints at the fragility of safety, the illusion that our homes, our walls, our familiar spaces are sanctuaries. The story told through sound is haunting: a descent into violence and despair that challenges our notions of shelter and violation.
“Beyond the Illusion” is an immersive installation created in 2013 at the Vancouver Film School. Built from a wooden box cloaked in black garbage bags, the space functions as both screen and chamber, playing a continuous video loop accompanied by an audio-driven narrative.
The video’s fragmented, graphic visuals stand in stark contrast to the audio's slow, deliberate pace, inviting dissonance. The experience is designed to unsettle gently, to suggest danger and unease beneath silence.
Headphones and darkness are recommended to fully enter the emotional frequency of the piece.
Ferdinand
Ferdinand is a hand-crafted piece made of papier-mâché and chicken wire. It plays on the idea that reading, once a cornerstone of reflection and depth, is slowly fading into obsolescence in the digital age.
Perched upside down on his own head, Ferdinand gazes at a television screen displaying The False Mirror, the iconic image by Belgian surrealist René Magritte. In his hands, he holds an open book , blank but for a web of chaotic lines, a silent metaphor for his own emptiness.
Les voyages Verticaux ou les pensees suspendues - the vertical travels or the hanging thoughts
This project is the fruition of a collaboration with a Congo-Swiss Artist Cecile N Duhirahe. We worked on the theme of "Roving". Wondering what defines someone as Stateless, we combined pictures and poems in a fold paper format. The piece is hanging in an space and the viewer has the possibility to unfold it vertically to discover the content within.
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