INSTRUMENT

It is through purpose that an object becomes instrument. But the difference between user and instrument can often be ambiguous.

Structures belonging to the human body such as teeth or fingers are in fact instruments, modeled and modified by the need to achieve various purposes through millennia of evolution. Likewise, plants also use instruments; a leaf is a means to feed oneself, while a flower is another one to reproduce oneself.

I think of the space my works create as universes that hold other ones within them. That may explain the reason I am often using the oval, a shape reminiscent of an egg, a seed, a galaxy or any other embryonic world.

Various structures of the natural and human world have inspired this work; among these is the Lyra, a pear-shaped, byzantine musical instrument with three strings, considered to be ancestor of many European bowed instruments.

Through this work, I search to create analogies between instruments of different orders and to reflect on the bonds between them. I ask: How does one instrument fabricate another? Which forces shape it? The purpose? The user? Is the human body an instrument? Whose instrument?

The works are etchings on copper, lithographs and woodcuts. Some works are parts of consistent editions, while the majority of them are variants.