gelification²⁰²⁵
    installation, variable dimension
    b&w handmade photograms, 50x60 cm, steel floating frames / video piece, color, sound, 1 channel, 22’00 / sound piece, 3’ 00, looped / printed edition, 37 pages, 8x15 cm

the term “gelification” of the oceans and the seas has recently surfaced to describe the proliferation of jellyfish drifting by the thousands. between overfishing, the spread of plastic, global warming, and the acidification of the oceans, jellyfish  are thriving amidst the disruptions caused by humans. in general, any action that harms marine ecosystems tends to benefit them. many human activities, in turn, suffer from the multiplication of this marine species: tourism, fishing, aquaculture, desalination plants, and the cooling systems of nuclear facilities often become obstructed, leading to costly shutdowns. this project examines the turbulence of Mediterranean waters: could jellyfish be acting as agents of ecological and political resistance against the violence induced by human activity?

    submerged perspectives^wip
    8mm / b&w / sound / 1 channel / 14’ 30

submerged perspectives is a speculative video essay that explores the Mediterranean as a haunted space, in the wake of the Black Atlantic, through the long durée of history. By weaving together ecological collapse and colonial legacies, the film follows the voices and ghosts that circulate in the ocean’s depths, exploring what lies beneath its shimmering surface. The Mediterranean emerges as a living archive of memory and matter — a place of mourning, transformation, and resistance.

    black tide²⁰²⁴
    hd / colour / sound / 1 or 3 channels / 12’ 30

a black mediterranean emerges beneath sparkling waters and unfolds to the sound of a lament [μοιρολόι] co-written with and performed by a greek mourner. lamentos are popular lyrical songs sung at the funeral of a loved one, whose origins date back to antiquity but are now tending to disappear. which lives are worth mourning?

    screening view: éclats festival, 2024, beursschouwburg^be 

    exhibition view: s’exposer, 2022, bps22^be

    seascapes (red tides)²⁰²³ 
    handmade prints / gum bichromate, blood / 78x106 cm

    exhibition view: archipel_0, contretype ^be

the mediterranean, this sea in which we carelessly bath, has become the deadliest migratory route in the world. but it is not only blood that stains its waters. beneath the surface, excess urban effluents cause algae blooms, also known as «red tides». dense layers of phytoplankton invade the water surface, blocking sunlight and depleting oxygen, creating hypoxic zones. these areas are also often referred to as dead zones, as the low oxygen concentrations turn them into areas of mass mortality. seascapes (red tides) is a series of photographic prints of the mediterranean sea made using gum bichromate - a contact printing technique dating back to the 19th century - with the difference that the pigments traditionally used have been replaced by human blood - mine.

    atlantis²⁰²²
    handmade silver prints / b&w / 50x60 cm

this project draws on the political and philosophical scope of the myth of atlantis to build a fictional story, but anchored in reality, on a contemporary atlantis: a civilization threatened by rising sea levels linked to global warming, resulting from the frenzy of human activity. this work puts into images and tries to make tangible the real, but still little visible, threat that weighs on these submerged territories, to evoke «what is coming»: like the landscapes doomed to disappear; an acceleration of the present made sensitive, if not visible, by the erasure, the burial; a suggestion of the unimaginable catastrophe.  the photographic tool is used not only as a reproduction of the reality, but also, and above all, as a way of putting into images a possible future reality. silver photographs constitute the support of the story, but also the support of a plastic writing: a raw material manipulated and reinvented in the darkroom in order to evoke the slow disappearance of these territories.