Codex
This series of several hundred photographs is the result of a process based on language and its reception in the public space. With a can of paint in my bag, I roamed the streets of Paris like a scribe looking for a blank tablet. Each mattress has its own quality, size, texture, wear and tear. They carry within them and on them the traces of their owner's life. Stains, aureoles, fluids of all kinds, they are the repositories of the human species in vigil. Witness to our most varied sighs, they carry a final message addressed to humanity.
Taking action in the public sphere is no easy matter. The phrases developed in advance are embodied according to the context and the mood of the moment.
The message is built on a play on language, based on ambiguity and humour. It's about human vulnerability, inverted truth and absurdity. It is by disrupting our reading habits in a space where information is oriented towards the useful, that something else can happen.