VINYJI
Silence
Immobility
My artistic work emerges from a critical observation of contemporary societies, marked by a globalized “bug / faillure”. In a context of crisis of thought, where the failure of individuals to act reveals a profound disconnection with the world, I question the way we relate to our environment and to ourselves.
Based on this diagnosis, my artistic practice embarks on a journey of deconstruction.
This deconstruction concerns beliefs, thoughts and identity. Faced with a world in perpetual motion and a sense of powerlessness, I have initiated a series of video-performances in which I stage myself in landscapes, adopting an immobile and silent posture.
The immobility and silence I emphasize in these performances are not simply acts of protest against the ceaseless hustle and bustle of the modern world. They are also an invitation
an invitation to the viewer to change perspective. By occupying a space in a static way, I create a visual reflection that acts like a mirror.
My absence of movement and sound becomes a space for contemplation, inviting viewers to turn their attention to their own inner silence.
By integrating these elements, my work proposes a return to silence and immobility as focal points for
reflection. I seek to reflect in the image the tremor that will bring down the veils of illusion. Through this approach, I hope to provoke introspection on the way we perceive ourselves and interact with our environment, opening up new perspectives on our place in the world.
I work with silence, immobility and light as a means of dissolving and redefining our relationship with the world.
MUTE (MUET)
Video-performance. video HD, 1920X1080, 7’44, LOOP, 2020
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There is an irreversible division from which the speaking subject definitely separates from reality and alienates himself in the order of language.
This division that leads us to be a prisoner by transforming our relation to reality with imaginary.
Thus, to return to our true nature, to our original state, to our reality, we would have to dissolve our language. A person remains motionless in a bare space, in the wind.
Video that translates a positioning, facing the world, in the form of a motionless rebellion. Facing the small and large movements to come.
Become the silence.
VEILS OF LIGHT
Performance / Installation, Cyanotypes, cotton veils, 60cmx200cm, 2024.
This performance involves drawing on transparent cotton fabrics, painting with sand and wind. The sun interacts with the cyanotype solution to reveal the design. The sails are infused with solar energy, oceanic forces, wind, and sand, creating a piece that captures the essence of nature’s elements in motion.
Cyanotype veils, suspended, interact with light to symbolize the imperceptible and evanescent, recurring themes in my work. These veils represent the layers of our identity, revealed only in stillness and silence.
COCOON
Black & white photographic series, 14.8cm x 21cm, UV prints on rusted steel plates, 2023.
Cocoon is a series that questions the transformation of body and mind, between what is revealed and what remains hidden.
My work is part of a reflection on impermanence, the dissolution of identity and the power of the process of metamorphosis.
The black-and-white photographs, printed on steel plates using the UV print technique, are deliberately left to the action of time, allowing rust to gradually draw on the metal surface. This process echoes the central theme of the series: transformation and impermanence.
Chrysalis of enveloped bodies that become symbols of both physical and mental confinement, evoking the different layers of the ego that temporarily veil our being.
The evolution of rust on the steel plates, far from deteriorating the work, contributes to the birth of new forms, gradually modifying the initial image. A creative force is at work, tracing and co-creating images. In this dialogue between static image and living matter, I strive to capture the fragile moment when identity is deconstructed, only to be reinvented.
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME HOW I FEEL
Video, HD, Square. 30sec, 2021.
A moment of suspended poetry that brought me back to my very intimate experience of the moment «when people ask me how I feel».
It speaks of a fragility and an attempt to connect to the world in a different way.
CONNECTING WITH BIRDS
Video-performance. video HD, 1920X1080, 9'30, LOOP, 2020
Edition n°1/5
First edition is now as a part of the UAL Art Collection.
During the first Lockdown, I realised this performance during 55 days.
Every day, I was silently outside on a terrace, the only authorized outside. There I tried to get in contact with the birds. Every day, I posted a new video to share with the outside world the progress of our relationship.
The working process for this performance is a bit different from the one explained for the previous videos, or the first time the world was at a standstill, motionless.
The first time I could imagine a new relationship with the world starting from this silence and immobility.
PLANES
Video-performance. video HD,1920x1080, 30', LOOP, 2020.
I am standing still on a roof- top.
Behind me one of London’s airports. This video, made one month before the first lockdown, was a criticism of our way of life and the air traffic congestion with its ecological consequences. We see planes taking off in real time in a continuous stream.
IN BETWEEN
Black & white photographs, steel plate prints, 420 x 297 mm, 2020.
This series explores the deconstruction of identity, particularly that of queer and non-queer people, through a process where time and material meet.
The portraits were shot in black and white, then printed on steel plates. These plates were exposed to the elements, allowing rust and corrosion to slowly transform the image. Once the degradation process
began, I re-captured the plates, creating a dialogue between the permanence of the portrait and the impermanence of the support. Light, by altering the appearance of rust, reveals the ongoing transformation of identity, questioning its very essence.
BOYys
Serie of photographs,Black & white, 2020.
RENDEZ-VOUS ON TIME OR THE BOX TREE MOTH.(RENDEZ-VOUS À L’HEURE OÙ LES PYRALES)
Video-performance. video HD, 1920X1080, 2’25 LOOP, 2018.
There is an urgent need to do something!
Scientists told us for years about the ecological and climatic consequences of our way of being in this world.
On the one hand, some studies suggest that nearly 80% of insects have disappeared in Europe in the last thirty years. On the other hand, so many other insects such as the box tree moth are spreading and scattering causing havoc ... We can feel disaster coming. The threat to life on our planet is real. And yet, no decision to reverse the process seems to be made.
E. Lorenz used the theory of chaos who wrote in a 1963 article that the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly
at one end of the Earth could affect the climate at the other end. It seems that human is resonating with these butter- flies and moths, in an agitation that seems only to lead to violence, disorder and chaos.
In this video, I remain motionless, facing camera, in the middle of Thousands of Box tree moths.
A Standstill rebellion.
ON THE SPOT / AGAINST THE GRAIN
Video-performance. video HD, 1920X1080, Loop, 2021.
Trauma makes a fracture, in life, in memory. The traumatic image cannot be assimilated and comes back in a loop in the reliving.
Let us take the example of Chris Marker’s movie «La Jetée», which illustrates the hypothesis of the repetitive nature of trauma. The film also raises the question of the construction of the self and the involvement of the body in trauma. The traumatic experience could leads to the dissociation of the individual’s psyche. This desidentification of the self can take the form of leaving the body.
This second year spent in isolation, unable to pursue my studies as I wished, alone, far from people, was without a doubt the source of inspiration for the video- performance that I made this year, «Connecting with birds» and this last performance «On the spot»
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No matter how hard I tried, I felt like I was living this year as an impossibility to move forward, like a bad dream that keeps coming back, as a glitch.
The use of the loop in my videos comes from this traumatic mechanism of constantly returning to the moment of disruption.