submerged perspectives
        8mm / b&w / sound / ongoing
  
One August morning, the Mediterranean Sea seemed to have changed skin. During the night, as if in a dream — or as if in a warning — the warm currents had meticulously scattered millions of jellyfish along the coastlines. Their gelatinous bodies had invaded the bays, the harbours, and the bathing areas. A murmur rose from the shores and the media: this familiar summer phenomenon of the Mediterranean coasts was, this time, of an exceptional scale.

screening of submerged perspectives @ FOMU, 26.06.26 - 23.08.26, antwerp ^be

jellification²⁰²⁵
    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 “jellification” 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. more generally, 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 installation examines the turbulence of Mediterranean waters: could jellyfish be acting as agents of ecological and political resistance against the violence induced by human activity?

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 of black tide @ éclats festival, beursschouwburg, 16.03.2024, brussels ^be 

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

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

the mediterranean sea has become one of the deadliest corridors in the world. but it is not only blood that stains its waters. beneath the surface, excessive urban effluents cause algae blooms, also known as "red tides." dense layers of phytoplankton invade the water's 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 zones 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.

exhibition view: archipel_0, contretype, 27.01.23 -  19.03.23, brussels ^be

 

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.