The moment it all start ?

I started with music, with synthesizers, instruments that I create myself.

At one point I got frustrated with music, it was already abstract enough in itself. So I bought myself a camera and started messing around with old Russian lenses, to be able to get close to the microscopic, I was taking pictures of my skin, metal, liquids etc.

Then I started to make video with it and that was a revelation, to be in depth on the material and the textures.

 

The moment you started to live from your art ?

When I started working on other people's projects, movies, clips, commercials, because everyone sees in abstractions what they want to see, it allows to illustrate a lot of things, be it emotions or materials like mist.

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The moment you discover an artist who inspired you ?

I loved Bill Viola, at the Grand Palais, his contemplative, spiritual, hypnotic approach, and the intimacy he puts into his works.

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The moment that moved you with one of your works ?

My Illumination piece in Dublin, a 21m long and 4m high screen on the edge of the canal along a park. There were children around screaming and playing with the piece, marveling at it. It's the biggest screen that broadcasts artistic content outdoors in Europe. 

Also As Above, a film in one sequence, abstract, where I filmed a chemical reaction on 8mm2, without editing.

 

The perfect moment or atmosphere to work ?

So it depends but it's true that sometimes I work in silence because the materials are very hypnotic, you work on a small scale and all your attention goes on it, you are in the dark and the material is very colorful, it's very meditative. You pay a lot of attention to all the details, the slightest bubble, the slightest hair, it can be a problem, or the opposite.

So the music can sometimes disturb this contemplation, or amplify it.

 

Your favorite material

Hot water. When I don't know what to do, I shoot hot water. The steam, the bubbles, the movements, there are a lot of things that happen depending on the light you bring, for example if you put a light in the steam it will make rainbows.