Early Works
Back To Childhood (2012)
While wandering in my grandparents’ attic, I stumbled upon a box filled with the toys I once played with as a child. Each object evoked a distinct memory, connecting me to moments long past. Rather than returning them to the box, I began to imagine how these toys might exist in our adult world.
Beyond their nostalgic power, toys offer those who animate them a marvelous ability: the capacity to reinvent the world, to reshape reality through imagination and memory.
« All the toys one commonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; they are all reduced copies of human objects, as if in the eyes of the public the child was, all told, nothing but a smaller man, a homunculus to whom must be supplied objects of his own size [...] The fact that French toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all [...]. »
Hopeless Romantic (2012)
We all long for our “great love”—so much so that it has become almost a prerequisite for happiness. Movies, books, and songs make it seem attainable, and so we naturally believe it must exist. But is it real?
Hopeless Romantic is a story of love and its illusions. A boy and a girl meet, and their relationship unfolds—from first encounter to final moments—tracing the arc from hopeful romanticism to inevitable disillusion. What begins as a vision of perfect connection gradually reveals itself as entangled with desire and self-interest, leaving behind both a sense of loss and the fragile possibility of a new beginning.
This project is a collaboration with french photographer Pauline Ballet