Invitation Cards / Options

For an exhibition you definitely need an invitation card. Here are my choices for the moment. I'm curious to know which one they will choose.

Welcome to my World goes Welcome to the Caribbean

The work “Welcome to my World” is a tent, which is wearable as a piece of clothing.




Starting from the fact, that every human has its protective cover, which is formed by his past, his taste, his dreams and nightmares I have visualized it with this tent. The cover is an image of oneself which is put over outside and this image is reflected in the menality, the style of clothes and the musictaste. The invisible cover marks the relation and the separation between oneself and the other. During several months I sat in this tent and stiched words, phrases and little objects which have a personal meaning to me inside of it. My idea is to come to Berlin with the tent and to install it in the Total Artspace Gallery and to live there during the exhibtion. The fact that I have very little space here in Paris limits me to work on two dimensions and the idea to work and create in the gallery inspires me a lot.



The idea behind is the following:

As in january a friend of mine went to the Caribbean to do scientific research concerning the climate change, which manifests itself strong storms. He created a blog on which he wrote about his experience on the research ship. Since then I haunt the adventure of science and the life on a sailing-ship. This inspired me to do my own trip to the Caribbean, through my artistic work and to develop a thought about this place and the nature of this region.



I will sew a sail out of plasticbags, show a serie of treasure maps, underwaterjungle drawings in an installation and a serie of little mysterious objects. I understand this work as a work in progress and the exhibition starts on the 19th of july 2007 with the arriving at the gallery with the tent and the underwaterjungle drawings. There will be a an exotic dinner for friends of the gallery and the artist, this date will be communicated then. The vernissage will be on 26. July 2007 at the Total Artspace Gallery, Lenaustraße 5 in 12047 Berlin. I would be glad to see you if you are around Berlin at this time.

Fermeture de la Banque des Illusions

I'm happy to annouce you that
the bank of illusion closed its doors
on june 23rd.

Thinkings on space

I was taking a rest from working in the evening and took a look
around in my room. Since I'm preparing an exhibtion in Berlin for July
I've got the impression that art is going to eat my space and me .
When I think about the fact, that during my beginning in Paris
I've lived in a 12 sqaure meter room with three windows just in roof,
so this appartment is quite luxurious. But it's necessary to breath
while working hard and so these thinkings about "normal needs"
just came along. In fact we get used to a lot of things in our life,
it's just a question of length. So even if the circumstances are bad
we get used to. If we live drama, we get used to this, if we live
deployment we get used to that and so on. Living in a small place is also an
intellectual efford in repression. While working concentrated on my drawings I forget the lack of space but sitting on the couch it really jumps on me.