My work focuses on labor, especially models of agricultural production and aims to build a bridge between rurality and urbanity. I examine the structural phenomenon that lead to exploitation of biological resources (e.g. Land Grabbing or Patents on Life) as well as deeply affect individuals and the areas they inhabit. Land, as a tool of production but also as a symbolic and emotional space - to be surveyed, mapped, probed - is constitutive of my work.
Growing up on a peasant farm, I combine autobiographical elements from a working class and queer perspective with social sciences and empirical experience without having any romanticism about the figure of the peasant, life in the countryside or the relationship with so-called Nature. My approach also implies a sensitivity to notions of queer ecology, especially in terms of deconstruction and inclusiveness. I am interested in the labor that is visible both in the actions of farmers and non-human workers such as earthworms, ants or agricultural machines.
These surroundings and their inhabitants constitute the base and become protagonists of my current mixed-media installations. Working with common, non - precious, recycled or organic materials, my practice flourishes in a polymorphous corpus, ranging from drawing to a walk, from sculpture to installation, from sewing to sound experiment, from video to conceptual cereal garden. Whether in agriculture or in art, questions related to our production processes are core contemporary issues for me.
My work focuses on labor, especially models of agricultural production and aims to build a bridge between rurality and urbanity. I examine the structural phenomenon that lead to exploitation of biological resources (e.g. Land Grabbing or Patents on Life) as well as deeply affect individuals and the areas they inhabit. Land, as a tool of production but also as a symbolic and emotional space - to be surveyed, mapped, probed - is constitutive of my work.
Growing up on a peasant farm, I combine autobiographical elements from a working class and queer perspective with social sciences and empirical experience without having any romanticism about the figure of the peasant, life in the countryside or the relationship with so-called Nature. My approach also implies a sensitivity to notions of queer ecology, especially in terms of deconstruction and inclusiveness. I am interested in the labor that is visible both in the actions of farmers and non-human workers such as earthworms, ants or agricultural machines.
These surroundings and their inhabitants constitute the base and become protagonists of my current mixed-media installations. Working with common, non - precious, recycled or organic materials, my practice flourishes in a polymorphous corpus, ranging from drawing to a walk, from sculpture to installation, from sewing to sound experiment, from video to conceptual cereal garden. Whether in agriculture or in art, questions related to our production processes are core contemporary issues for me.