Klay Collective
The sensation of invisibility and non-existence has long been preferable to the existent and the visible. In the same way, the need to tear oneself away from the family soil and to bear a name other than that of birth, impossible, too narrow, not entering into it. And the impossibility of nom.prenom.com. Of this quasi-obligation to exist on the internet in order to exist at all. When there is no gallery, no market, no site, when practices are not acclaimed by the contemporary world, such as direct cutting, unless suddenly someone makes it a marketing element at the forefront of hype - then, in this case, what becomes of our practice and our vision, if it is not shared.
Now that the world is cracked, there is more space. It becomes important to come to a possibility of visibility in order to work towards the construction of the other world, next to the one that is collapsing but still takes up all the space, art is militant action. Today, objects can participate in an essential beauty, testify to essential human connections, but what counts above all is the number of us who look elsewhere.
This site, therefore, with the traces available, to say a complex, fluctuating and free trajectory.
The grass that the horse grazes exists even if no one is present to name the grass or the horse. Actions exist even outside the gaze of the "official" institutions and places of art.
Outside/
What shaped me, beyond the living conditions: social environment, education, culture – these are the elements of nature – mountains and rocks, ocean, expanses and waves, moors. What grows. From there, my approach flows throughout. At the root, there is this relationship to the hectic, to the outside. As a child, starting at dawn, and, during walks in the mountains, sensations marked the body. The certainty of being that is one – body, mind, intuition, world – There is also the desire to build. Something that relies on itself to build itself, and so on, strata. I found these primordial things when I approached direct carving, many years after I wanted to approach it. In between, I have come a long way and crossed several disciplines.
What shaped me, beyond the living conditions: social environment, education, culture – these are the elements of nature – mountains and rocks, ocean, expanses and waves, moors. What grows. From there, my approach flows throughout. At the root, there is this relationship to the hectic, to the outside. As a child, starting at dawn, and, during walks in the mountains, sensations marked the body. The certainty of being that is one – body, mind, intuition, world – There is also the desire to build. Something that relies on itself to build itself, and so on, strata. I found these primordial things when I approached direct carving, many years after I wanted to approach it. In between, I have come a long way and crossed several disciplines.
Trajectory/
First, space, matter. Sculpture, monumentality. Other mediums – video, sound, installation, performance. Question of the exhibition and the place of the body: trampling in front of a "work"?? Question of "We have to name for it to exist": yes and no: nuances, contradictions. A question of what we do, as humans in this society – white, country in relative peace, consumption – the children we sit on the school benches, trained for what? For what? In the name of what? Women have lost their power to give birth when humanity can no longer meet its basic needs. When beings don't always know where their true power and freedom lie. Which is vast. The search for an experience, for the present, for a visceral relationship with the world, vibrant and free.
First, space, matter. Sculpture, monumentality. Other mediums – video, sound, installation, performance. Question of the exhibition and the place of the body: trampling in front of a "work"?? Question of "We have to name for it to exist": yes and no: nuances, contradictions. A question of what we do, as humans in this society – white, country in relative peace, consumption – the children we sit on the school benches, trained for what? For what? In the name of what? Women have lost their power to give birth when humanity can no longer meet its basic needs. When beings don't always know where their true power and freedom lie. Which is vast. The search for an experience, for the present, for a visceral relationship with the world, vibrant and free.
Necessity of the body / Dance and writing / Live performance /
Get in touch. Search for the Other – Alter ego. Manufacturing. Walks, dances outside, alone. Search for the ground, for what lies at the base: definition of the essentials: drinking, eating, inhabiting, covering oneself, sleeping – loving.