En terrain vague is an installation that imagines the vestiges of a past life, of a world in migration which, having reached its end long ago, still stirs with a nearly residual energy; like a vast, travelling mechanical theatre seeking to return to life for one final performance.
If, while walking through a wooded area or an open field, you take the time to stop, bend down, and observe nature up close, you will notice that nothing around us exists in perfect condition. Blades of grass are scorched by the sun or eaten by insects. Insects carry parasites or suffer from disease. Branches are broken, shrubs yellow from too much or too little water. Everything, absolutely everything that lives is damaged, worn, sick, or altered. Nothing is intact, nothing is perfect. It is from this apparent chaos that a world in constant evolution emerges, a churning mass of organisms striving toward an unattainable balance. It is from this imbalance that movement is born.
Having spent many years working on a vegetable farm, I observed nature closely, kneeling in the fields weeding carrots or following the developmental cycles of insects. This perspective has profoundly shaped my artistic practice. My installation work seeks to stage this chaos and imbalance through works that are abrasive, dysfunctional, or worn.
Through approximation and anti-performance, my practice also responds to the relentless pursuit of aesthetic experience that defines our era, in which we are exposed as never before to a gargantuan volume of cultural production. I explore the fragility of individual and collective human experience through the fragility of materials and through the antithesis of high technology. In this context, the improvised, analog, and handcrafted object feels more relevant than ever.
