Created in 2024
THEMA
Paris, France
In March 2024, I was invited to present a solo exhibition during THEMA Paris, a curated design fair dedicated to collectible and contemporary functional art.
The event took place inside the Hôtel de Guise, a near-abandoned 17th-century mansion in the heart of Paris’ 7th arrondissement.
From the moment I stepped into the space, I knew it would not be a neutral setting. The silence, the faded grandeur, the slow erosion of time on the walls, it all resonated with something deeply personal. The place felt like it had been waiting.
I chose not to fight the decay, but to echo it. My pieces, sculptural, raw, and charged with tension, were arranged across dimly lit rooms, leaning into the textures of peeling walls and forgotten details. They emerged like relics from a suspended ritual, speaking to the fragility of presence and the elegance of collapse.
This site-specific installation became a quiet statement.
A deepening of the neo-romantic and tragic vocabulary that underlies my practice. A way of embracing impermanence not as an end, but as a form of truth. It was more than an exhibition, it was a conversation between matter, memory, and the ghosts of place..
