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Flesh, interrupted, 2026
Mixed media (painting, photography)
140 × 220 cm (87 × 55 in)

Flesh, interrupted, 2026
Mixed media (painting, photography)
140 × 220 cm (87 × 55 in)

Enantiodromia, 2026
Mixed media (painting, photography)
80 × 110 cm (31.5 × 43.5 in)

Enantiodromia, 2026
Mixed media (painting, photography)
80 × 110 cm (31.5 × 43.3 in)

Ubuntu, 2024
Mixed media (collage, photography)
165 × 130 cm (64 × 51 in)
Ubuntu explores the body as a carrier of identity and memory, created for The Brooklyn Artist Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th anniversary, revealing how each individuality is shaped within the collective through a mosaic of singular presences forming a shared, plural identity.

Unfolding Identities, 2026
Painting
150 × 1500 cm (60 × 590 in)

Unfolding Identities, 2026
Painting
150 × 1500 cm (60 × 590 in)
Across fifteen meters, the piece unfurls like a living body, a fluid progression between recollection and emergence. Each material functions as a second skin, shielding, preserving, and, through its fissures, exposing the reality beneath.
The work interrogates identity through the body, a concept perceived as mutable, perpetually evolving. Identity surges, withdraws, adapts, and redefines itself.

Unfolding Identities, 2026
Painting
150 × 1500 cm (60 × 590 in)



Together with Silent Truth, The Ritual forms a diptych exploring the tension between normalized images and what they exclude.
The installation recreates an intimate space : sink, mirror, makeup traces, revealing a daily ritual of correction and conformity.
The cosmetic gesture becomes a performance of imposed norms, exposing the subtle violence of aesthetic expectations and the erasure of bodily truth.
A live performance, in which the artist enacts the ritual, deepens the critical dimension of the piece.
The Ritual
Installation / Performance
2025

Silent Truth, 2025
Mixed media (painting, photography)
21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in) each, in a series of 84
Part of a diptych with The Ritual, this work challenges the everyday staging of the body and imposed norms.
Through photographs and paintings, the artist reveals what society seeks to hide: fragments of marked, forgotten skin. The piece stands as a visual manifesto, celebrating the raw, living body against normative erasure.
Folds of skin and paper merge into a sensitive surface, each fragment asserting a presence that escapes control. By revealing what’s hidden, the work gives voice to the deep, silenced traces of the living.

Silent Truth, 2025
Mixed media (painting, photography)
21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in) each, in a series of 84

The mirror skin
Alive installation
2023

The mirror skin
Alive installation
2023

My hands knew, part B, 50x65cm
Mixed media (poetry, painting)
2025

My hands knew, part B, 50x65cm
Mixed media (poetry, painting)
2025

Fragment of self
21x29,7cm (x60)
Photographs and fabrics
2020

Fragment of self
21x29,7cm (x60)
Photographs and fabrics
2020

To the curl of my hair
29,7cmx42cm (x5)
Photographs printed on fabric
2023

My skin is alive
70x100 cm
Painting on paper
2025



Underneath my skins 80x100cm (32x40 inch)
Mixed media (poetry, painting, photography)
2025

Making love
21x29,7 cm
Painting on paper
2025


One in five woman with textured hair feel social pressure to straighten their hair - twice as many as other women.
Textured hair is judge as less beautiful, less sexy and less professional than smooth hair
Une femme sur cinq ayant des cheveux frisés ou crépus ressent une pression social pour lisser ses cheveux. Soit deux fois plus que les autres femmes.
Les cheveux crépus sont jugés moins beaux, moins sexy et moins professionnels que les cheveux lissés.
Hair anxiety
0,5x0,5cm
Photograph
2024

Meditative braids
Art Performance
2024
Meditative braids unfolds in two acts: braiding and unbraiding.
Through this repetitive gesture, the body is transformed, then returned to itself.
The performance explores how visible alterations shape perception, and how identity emerges through cycles of change.


Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024

The other Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024

Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024

Cellophane heart II
50x65cm
Mixed media
2024
What is underneath my skin ?
Photographs printed on reworked paper
21x29,7cm (x9)
2023

Cellophane heart III
50x65cm
Mixed media
2024

The elephant skin you don't like
29.7x42cm
Photographs printed on fabric
2020

The Elephant skin you don't like
29,7x42cm/21x29,7cm
2020