After two years studying Science and Engineering in Bretagne, I joined the Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design in 2020. Here I gained a technical background in material sciences, particularly within an industrial context. I combined this experience with my practice in contemporary art and design I learned in art school. This helps me to create projects that are both shaped by hands-on material skills and by creative and conceptual thinking.
My work focuses on what I call a “process-based design”, where the steps of testing, experimenting, and making are just as important as the final object. I explore ideas through changes in scale, model making, breaking things down into parts, and hands-on material experiments. Working directly with raw materials is at the core of my practice. I often begin with a single piece of material and then move on to drawing, modeling, or sometimes life, observational drawing, before continuing with further material explorations. I combine relatively newer techniques such as 3D-printing, 3D-modeling and laser cutting with more traditional practices like clay and plaster molding and the use of maquettes and cupboard models. All of this results in objects, furniture, and scenographic elements that embody an experimental approach to materials and form.