What remains of a poplar -project focuses on the forest (trees / plant matter / fungi) through my personal experience to explore its transformation processes, to understand it as an indispensable reality, as a unique ecosystem that has become increasingly rare and precious, and above all as a tangible dimension of time.

For this project my artistic practice, working in situ, in various forests of France, and indoor (based on casts, imprints, observation drawings and photos), responds to the need to represent fragments of reality to perpetuate its memory in a time when forest is undergoing disastrous and irreversible transformations.
I started this project in November 2019.

What remains of a poplar - project 

This work is part of the main project "What remains of a poplar" in which I develop a reflection on the theme of nature, a subject that I have always investigated, but with a particular emphasis on the forest, on this complex and vulnerable ecosystem made up of a multitude of interconnected species through interactions and cycles that they ensure its survival. 
A unique ecosystem that has become increasingly rare and precious, and above all  a tangible dimension of time.

In Fungi I highlight the symbiotic association of certain fungi to its partner tree through a complex exchange of nutrients and information.


FUNGI - extract Agaricus bisporus

The cartography of this marble fragment looks like the figuration of the marble quarry from which it originates. In the same way,  represents in a certain mean the cartography of its path, from the origins of its formation in the heart of the Apuan Alps in Carrara, until the moment that I found it.

Heart of marble Heart of Carrara - Cartography of a fragment - is part of the main project "Cartographies of close distances" in which I am interested in the reconstruction of geographical places by creating the cartography of territories based on a specific link with them: origin, memory, emotions, experience, desire, objects, matters.

Heart of marble Heart of Carrara - Cartography of a fragment

This installation of drawings is part of the main project Matter and Body.
The five drawings in this work represent casts made on various rocky walls of a geological site in France.

In  Matter_and_Body  I investigate matter, its physicality in space, as well as space understood as matter. A geological matter, anthropic or natural, and our intimate relationship to it whether it is contemplative or invasive.
Our passage from and into space and our experience with it is represented by the figuration of the body (always autobiographical).


Corpus_Petram

In Ephemeral / Atemporal I explore the slowed down process of the decomposition of leaves and flowers. In reality, this process has several stages. By means of photography, I have selected one of these moments and reproduced various images through the lead mine drawing and the monotype technique. Ephemeral, precisely because it depicts a passing moment in the cycle of nature in a fixed image; Atemporal to immortalize and enhance the beauty and fragility of the cycle of nature and the very meaning of life.

Ephemeral - Atemporal (n. I, II, III, V )

This installation - called Layers of time in a rock - is part of the main project If I were rock (2019 - 2021).
This work consists of twelve layers which are the result of twelve different casts on rock.

Geological matter carries within itself mutations and stratifications, natural or artificial, tangent testimony of the passage of time; matter that will continue to transform over the years or disappear.

For this project  If I were rock  I was interested in the surface of the material that constitutes a geological landscape (in particular the rocks of the Massif Central in France). By detecting the surface of some rocks, I have developed several constituent layers of a fragment of them to reconstruct a cycle in order to archive the memory, a kind of contemporary archeology.

Layers of time in a rock


This work consists of twelve layers which are the result of twelve different casts on a rock.

Geological matter carries within itself mutations and stratifications, natural or artificial, tangent testimony of the passage of time; matter that will continue to transform over the years or disappear.

For this project  If I were rock  I was interested in the surface of the material that constitutes a geological landscape (in particular the rocks of the Massif Central in France). By detecting the surface of some rocks, I have developed several constituent layers of a fragment of them to reconstruct a cycle in order to archive the memory, a kind of contemporary archeology.



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