« AUSCULPTER »

I’m working about the idea of ’“Archisony” (Architecture/Sound) during my residencies where I capture sounds of a building or a quater. I focus on sounds of architectural materials (concrete, glass…). Then, I use this database as material to sculpt/work, producing pictures echoing these sound captures.

My plastic work borrows formal languages of Sculpture, Architecture, Acoustic and Antropology. As an artist working on a specifc field, I choose to live in quaters or buildings I want to take it pulse : by a captures work (sound, graphic and objects documents) I revisit our perception of these places, proposing a new lecture. It is not a question of listen to a given place’s chest, (in french, to « ausculter », medically, a place) but to listen attentively in order to create a new lecture of the place (in french, to « ausculpter » as aneologism gathering the idea of listen and sculpt in a same verb).

During my residency in the Couvent de la Tourette in Eveux, France (2011), I’ve opereted sound captures of material vibrations (concrete, glass, wood…) and interviewed the unhabitants of the covent, about material silence.

For my project in Firminy-Vert, France (2013), I’ve produced differents bells’ rings (“paraboles”) and meeting the unhabitants of the Unité d’habitation, questionning the idea of polyphony.

Sound work produced in the framework of a state’s commission of the musée d’art moderne de Saint-Etienne for the ECHO(S) exhibition