Shadows and reflections are omnipresent in your works. Is light at the heart of your work?
It's not only at the heart of my sculptures, but it's their very reason for being. Mirror-polished stainless steel has the unique property of reflecting light. It can also provoke intellectual reflection with philosophical and symbolic messages. It's this duality, the complementarity of the words "to reflect" and "to provoke reflection," that lies at the center of everything.
Light is also used to create illusion in your work!
Especially with works like this one, which is called Beware of Certainties
. I place traps within them so that the viewer doubts. And a person who doubts finds peace, broadens their perspective, and doesn't remain in extreme situations. For each of my six themes, I choose a challenging symbolism to create calm, gentleness, and lightness.
You also combine angular square shapes with more fluid forms!
I always start with something square, something cubic. For the foundation, the structure, I create this very established form so that I can then deconstruct it. There must be a balance within the cube, within the deconstruction, and in the relationship between the two. There are certain principles, like the golden ratio, that are very important in balancing proportions.
Light everywhere, except in "Flight-Emotion." Is it a separate series?
It's a work that summarizes my entire life. And that can summarize the life of all human beings. It's a very particular concept since I don't have any individual pieces. I travel to the homes of people who entrust me with a wall, and I create a piece on-site, tailored to the wall's dimensions, the surrounding environment, the personalities of the people who live there, and the colors present in their homes. It conveys a universal symbolic message made up of small squares that remain within the frame and squares that take flight where the frame opens.
Are your sculptures born on paper?
No, my sculptures are in my mind. There are no plans, no molds; each piece is unique, even if there are several on the same theme. The sculptor's mind projects what they want to achieve. The hands do the work because they have mastered the technique. I know where the folds will be. What effects I can achieve in terms of reflections, color, penetration, and so on. There are always surprises, things that don't happen exactly as I expected. But once it's finished, when the piece comes back from the painter, I realize I've achieved what I had envisioned in my mind.
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