Driven by my interest in the critical relationship between time, art, and luxury, I visited the studio of French painter Clément Borderie, located at Charles Foix Hospital in Ivry-sur-Seine, a facility specializing in gerontology—the study of aging.

In the hospital gardens, Borderie installed large metal matrices, some equipped with evaporator coils that freeze moisture from the air. These matrices serve as frames for white canvases, which are frozen and exposed to the elements over time. As the seasons change, the canvases absorb environmental shifts, becoming spatio-temporal "identity cards" that reveal the imperceptible patterns of time’s passage.

More than just capturing nature, these artworks bear witness to the human aging process, symbolically imbued with the "colors" of the souls of end-of-life patients in the palliative care units.

In collaboration with Clément, we selected a canvas to morph into a haute couture piece, merging the roles of designer and curator, challenging traditional boundaries, and exploring themes of time, decay, and reinvention.

Wheel Matrix was presented during Sleepless Nights Miami in the Alfred DuPont Building at the International Design Competition and Symposium organized by the Arts of Fashion Foundation and Miami International University of Art and Design.

"My roots plunge into no one knows which ground. Nothing natural in me. Nothing coming from the earth. No sap. No possibility to blossom." — Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Romanian philosopher.

As a migrant who was involuntarily forced into exile due to violence in my country, I deeply resonate with the sense of otherness and uprootedness expressed by Cioran. From an early age, I was detached from the nurturing soil of my native roots. To blossom in unfamiliar landscapes, I was compelled to cultivate new "sap", crafting my own narrative, mastering foreign languages, and engineering fluid identities that transcend the limitations of my cultural background.  

Roots is a personal reflection on belonging that took place during Art Basel Miami Beach Week in the Wynwood Art District of Miami.

The installation showcases my collection of collaborative artworks created in partnership with artists such as Olivier Goulet, Thomasie Giesecke, Aurore Tomé, Diane Pernet, Dan Salzmann, and Arnaud Bouchard, along with the personal works of Dominik Von Schulthess and Vincent Gagliostro.

This exhibition reflects on my lifelong commitment to pursuing a multidisciplinary collaborative creative practice that explores the DNA of our time.

Portrait Of My Time

Live Performance

Collaboration with Tara Shea aAnanda and Nikki Pike.

A Portrait of My Time is a live performance that stages the Simplest Surrealist Act, which according to André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto published in 1924, involved "going into a street with revolvers in hand and firing blindly into the crowd."

The artwork questions the United States’ status as the most heavily armed civilian population, where 9 million handguns, machine guns, and military assault rifles flood the streets annually, leading to the highest number of high school massacres worldwide.

Having experienced gun violence firsthand, I carry the weight of that trauma. This personal history compels me to wonder, now as one of their own, why American families continue to bring weapons designed for war into our neighborhoods.

A Portrait of My Time confronts the unsettling contradiction of a nation that claims to protect its youth while subjecting them to the threat of gun violence in school, holding them hostage to a culture obsessed with firearms.