Experimental itinerant museum. 2021 Mobile and folden bed Fondazione Pistoletto-Cittadellarte, Italy

O.P.E.N. (Poetic Orientations of Narratives Experiments) is an experiment to bring out crossings of thoughts and imaginaries around a folding and mobile bed to question the use of the museum today by deconstructing it and envisioning it together.

Multimedia Installation. 2020 Photography (105x140cm), video (7’48’’, loop), stool, vegetal elements

La Trinité represents the central dogma of modern society through the eyes of the Exotic Garden of Monaco. Indeed, this garden being a reflection and a symbol of constantly evolving urban life, I replay the imagination of the Christian faith by bringing to light buried images of our construction of the Western world. Thus, La Trinité is an installation which consists of three individual works.

L’Ascension La Genèse du monde La Traversée

Each is based on distinct and equal principles of modern human philosophy.

L’Ascension (video 7’48’’, loop), stool. The device invokes the figure of the Father who guides and uplifts man through technical education in order to attain new knowledge. In the video, construction cranes blend into the landscape of the botanical garden, moving around and embodying the flora on display. The artifice thus becomes natural, the machine takes over. Man rediscovers eternal wisdom.

La Genèse du monde (printed photography 105x140cm) In Christian belief, the Son is the one through whom the Father was able to create the sky, the earth, the material world. The photographic image thus captures a false erected ruin taken against the light in the exotic garden of Monaco. The projected shadow would reflect our destiny, our human condition. Modern man therefore embodies all the fullness of an opaque divinity. The collapse.

La Traversée (vegetal elements, support) Plant elements collected from the garden are carefully arranged on a board echoing scientific discoveries. This rational and pragmatic thought of science is inspired by the figure of the Holy Spirit, a metaphor for the spirit of God and which is represented by natural symbols. Thus, La Traversée would be the path of life, the journey of man in the quest, instrumentalisation and categorization of Nature. Divide and rule.

La Trinité thus re-enacts the Monegasque territory through her "exotic" garden to bring out visions of our existence. The spatial arrangement at different levels creates a form of language in a loop between the works, establishing a heritage that is perpetually built up. La Trinité is therefore a way of telling and rethinking the stories of the history of modern civilization.

La Trinité has been exhibited as part of Jardin en Cours exhibition at the Quai Antoine 1er Showroom in Monaco.

Performance / Photo Installation. 2019

 “What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of Planet Earth will the soles of our feet have touched?”
– Georges Perec, Species of Spaces

DISPOSABLE SPECIES of SPACES is an artistic walk that attempt to rebuild the viewers perception of space through a disposable camera. The public is invited to follow the performer through several indications. The project is an intempt to rebuilt the perception of the space of the viewers: up/down, left/ right, far/near, in front of/behind, but also the horizon, the emptyness, the unexpected; those notions are reinterrogated and reconnected in everyone’s imagination. This project is a poetic gesture to make visible our (in)attention to a specific space and to its multiple points of view.

DISPOSABLE SPECIES of SPACES was selected and presented in the section FORMATION for the Prague Quadrennial 2019 - Curators: D. Chase Angier & Serge Von Arx.

Photos by Studio LOKA and © Alžběta Jungrová, PQ 2019 archive

Installation & Performance. 2021 Wood, natural painting, vegetal paper, seeds Land Art Festival Les Mûrs à Pèches, Montreuil Association T.I.G.E x Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain

A poetic cartography to celebrate water as a spiritual entity, able to connect people, life beyond borders.

Site specific walk performance. 2014

Echo Walk is a ballad through space, time and intimicy, in which the public shares the stories told by the performers.

A time when false memories are grafted to the real memories of a place at a specific time. Memories of strata, stories intertwine, not allowing the viewer to differentiate right from wrong, memory from imagination.

The walk allows a visit to the past, not in the sense of going back in time - which would imply a linear reading of time - but as a past which coexists with nowadays and who would let see, hear and live, as the first time. The performance is an attempt to make visible an alteration, as much as a historical memory than an individual memory and collective imagination.

Here, the questions that arise are: What is the boundary between memory and history? What is the time of this place? 

Echo Walk sets the scene for time and reality to make us more appreciate their limitations, the notion that we have through the prism of a story that we can all share. Thus, the memory of a place or what we perceive is rebuilt.

This project has been realized with the support and collaboration of the World Stage Design Festival 2017 in Taipei, the Fljótstunga Residency in Iceland (spring, 2015), in the public spaces of Jardin des Plantes (2018) and the Centquatre space in Paris (2016).

In situ installation. 2019 Sicilian oranges

Révélations is a poetic manifesto to energize and revitalize the places we occupy and shape.

During an artistic residency in the Botanical Garden of Palermo in Sicily, I was seduced by the way the place is maintained by the gardeners. So, I decided to intervene and have different spaces interact in the garden itself.

The site is activated with Sicilian oranges found on the garden floor to create color stimuli. This approach leads to spontaneous and sensitive arrangements of space, an exchange with the lines, the orthogonal plans of the place which contrast with the organic architecture of the trees. The smallest interstices and hollows are reached in order to connect us with the smallest endings.

The visitor is thus invited to cross the place and to feel the pulsations which emanate from this ecosystem. These points of tension become impulses of life, of regeneration which communicate with our spirit and activate our consciousness towards the spaces which we inhabit.

Révélations is embodied in sensitive acupuncture, capable of both relieving, preventing and treating our inattention to the world and thus offering reconciliation and reconnection with it.

This project has been realized as part of the workshop “Tropical gardens and climate change” by the invitation of the artist Yann Toma in partnership with Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University (The Sorbonne Sustainable Development department), the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo and the Botanical Garden of Palermo.

Sculpture / Photography. 2017 Powdered concrete, 12 photographies (24x24cm each), 96x72 cm

Over the past few decades, mankind has been in the era of the Anthropocene and has become such a force that it is transforming its territory to build new ones.

Alphabétons is thus an approach to the natural landscape that is changing in a sensitive and critical perspective revealing new imaginaries and representations of the world.

Alphabétons is a series featuring several rivers from around the world (Nile, Mississippi, Yangzijiang ...). For the work Amazonas, I question the South American continent by taking as a subject of study the Amazon River, the largest reserve of fresh water on the planet Earth.

The Amazon River is represented here through twelve photographs that show pieces of the river in powdered concrete. The use of this material is interpreted as an ephemeral, fragile element that tends towards its disappearance over time, a tangible proof of the loss of natural resources. This toxic, harmful and industrial material is also revealed as a human imprint on its habitat, on its ability to shape it. The desertification of the river is announced as its own infertilization through this accumulation of polluting material. These clues show the work as much as a work in progress as an abandoned ruin. This ambiguity refers to the difficulty of the human being to find balance and unity with his environment, his inability to meet with nature.

The arrangement of the photographs thus shows a complete cartography of the great Amazonian basin in the form of a calendar that is transformed into a kind of new alphabet, a new hybrid language. As a result, all rivers make Alphabétons an anthology of a nascent universal idiomatic code.

Photography / Installation. 2018 - ongoing Demarcation area, postcards (13x19cm)

Paradis Retrouvé is a reflection on the immanent desire of man to want to control and dominate his natural environment. The installation offers postcards of trees prohibited to the public in urban spaces.

As nature has become less and less present in cities, protection mechanisms are being set up, further impoverishing our contact with it. These paradoxical moments reflect our desire to keep a memory, an image of paradise lost, amplified by the postcard format. The presence of physical distancing measures in the exhibition space is an abyss of the situation, inviting the public to (re) question the limits of their actions and their relationship to the world.

Paradis Retrouvé thus refers to our aspiration to reach the famous paradise.

Installation / Performance. 2019 Shelters created to share and make friends with the passers-by and local community.

« Friendship goes around the world and invites us all to wake up for happy lives ». Epicure

The Friendship Zone is a collaborative project designed with our friends and Finnish artists Paullina Sjöberg and Teo Paaer. Together, we decided to make the concept of friendship a work of art! Friendship and art are two values, two concepts common to all! It is a playground on which everybody can evolve, learn and share. Art is an actor of change that touches the true and the deep in which we can all dive! In this way, the project propose different spaces where the participants can finally meet each other, get out of our «I» and discover the «we». An intimate space where a community of individuals can build lasting relationships.

Convivial, participative, playful and caring, The Friendship Zone is a unique work where each participant is invited to take part in the action and share new perspectives on the world.

Installation. 2018 Fallen leaves, fan

Réanimation is a critique of the systematic use of machinery and technology by humans as a sign of progress.

Faced with the current ecological crisis, this behavior is proving to be an attractive or even saving response, the consequences of which are as damaging as the initial problem. The man arrived in a moment of rupture which indicates his inability to observe its environmental impact.

On the one hand, this cloud of hanging leaves freezes this moment of conflict, which contrasts with the poetic and delicate flight of the leaves animated by an industrial artefact.

The display device highlights this idyllic artificial landscape by highlighting this machinery.

The revived decor then becomes a reflection of the domination and disrespect of man over the reign of the living.

Réanimation has been exhibited at Michel Journiac Galery in Paris.

Education & learning program. 2020 Curators: Yana Klichuk & Joana Monbaron European nomadic biennial Manifesta 13 Marseille, France

Al Moutawassit : cultural mediation as a meeting point is a project born from the shared desire to consider the potential of critical pedagogy in the transformation of artistic practices, cultural mediation, curating and teaching on both shores of the Mediterranean. Al Moutawassit : cultural mediation as a meeting point aims at initiating a process of mutual enrichment through the theoretical and practical exchange of know-hows.

Three projects (restitution): - Presencias Nya (Naive and voluntary presences; in collaboration with Solène Bourezma) stages various gestures around mediation to question the place of the body in cultural practices.

- Tejiendo Pueblos (Weaving the Peoples) is a gesture to highlight this process of deconstruction, unlearning, bringing together different cultures and points of view.

- Excursion Sauvage (poem)

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Collage. 2020 Oat flakes on paper, various sizes (24x30cm / 29,7x42cm / 50x65cm).

Refuges is a collection of "interior architectures", intimate and protective sanctuaries. These dwellings invite you to be silent, meditate and listen to yourself. Oats being the symbol of abundance, it brings us back to the roots and basic needs of our existence.

These pictograms are inspired by ancestral architectures, especially from pre-colombian cultures, as a primary source of understanding and knowledge of our world.

Living sculpture / Photography. 2016 - ongoing

« The landscape is the link between our outside self and our inner self » Bill Viola

Pieles (skins, in spanish) was born from a long trip to Latin America. It invites us to approach and experience the landscape through the body to give life to living sculptures that integrate into and interact with it. They unify and converge in a single vibration, in a panorama where sculpture and landscape become one skin.

Pieles thus suggests precious moments when the body expands and spreads in the universe, like a return to the womb of the Earth. It is a sensitive and intuitive experience that reveals a kind of ritual celebrating our connection and our belonging to Nature and the cosmos.

Photographic captures become the trace of this intimate exchange giving birth to ephemeral monuments. The survival blanket reminds us once again of the obvious fragility and vulnerability of our Mother Earth, but also of the precariousness of our relationship with the world.

Pieles continues to dialogue around the world in order to create a poetic memory of the Earth.

Pieles was exhibited at A Seis Manos Cultural Center in Bogota, Colombia in 2016. In 2017, at La Maison de Amérique Latine in Strasbourg, at Pol'n space in Nantes and at La Maison de Amérique Latine in Marseille . PIELES recently won 3rd prize of AMMA PRIZE 2019, jury chaired by Philippe Dagen at the Bastile Design Center in Paris.

Sculpture / Photography. 2020

Arquitectura invisible is a tribute to precarious and informal architecture that is neither valued nor recognized. This survival architecture, which is not found in trade magazines, overflows with limitless inventiveness and ingenuity. Each construction is a creation in its own right, made with hands, courage and the best care. Everyone does with what they have, everyone decorates and arranges it as best they can.

Arquitectura invisible proceeds from the same philosophy, I create with my own resources, with simple materials from my daily life.

This resourcefulness embodies an act of resistance, the right to have a home, to exist and to live in an equally legitimate way.

I wish to carry this project further by proposing the construction of a "real" house in glass jars, the collection of this material is underway.

Le Lendemain serie questions the state of current natural spaces, whether in the forest of Fontainebleau or in the tropical lands of Isla Fuerte in Colombia. The images show the remnants of a nature that is either disappearing or transforming due to its own resilience under the influence of climate change.

The use of expired APS film suspends the photographed image and the revealed print. Failure to control the print then embodies our own powerlessness to control nature. This uncertainty disturbs our fantasy of the lost paradise, of our protected green spaces. The whole of the colored mists draws us into a floating, dreamlike and mutant reality.

Thus the deconstruction of the captured landscape allows us to think differently about our ecological commitment by questioning our way of apprehending the world.

Site specific walk performance. 2015

Les Aventures de Super Martin (The Super Martin's Adventures)  is an opportunity for citizens to fully embrace the environmental challenge not only for our planet but also for our own future and our relationships with others.

"The essential question is: what should we turn? The environment to suit the man, or the man to fit the environment? Should we give the man artificial and sophisticated ways that will help him survive or adapt its organization to the survival conditions offered by the environment? " (Yona Friedman in The Architecture of Survival).

In this vision, we propose a walk in the city where the public is invited to follow Super Martin.
The idea was born of our common imagination of childhood superheroes who save the world. Superman, Spiderman make the difference and still fighting the bad guys.
We turn this super power image to humorously point the causes and consequences of our behavior on our environment.
Our actions are directly responsible for the preservation or non-preservation of our ecosystem. For there to be a dialogue between man and his environment, man must begin to question his surroundings: his space but also other men who inhabit this space.

We play on the moment and the context that is offered to us and comes to us.

This project has been realized as part of the Global Climate Festival ArtCop21 2015 in Paris.

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A fixed point in motion. Photography as the artistic expression of the most perfect, the most achieve against death and aging. The artist expresses his thought, his eyes on the world, his emotion, his environment when he creates it. This moment is a privilege to share.

At the Louvre just tries to express a sensitivity inside the most known and visited museum of the world.

Jérémie Kalil is attracted to photography since he was a kid pushed by his own father. He is self-educated but inspired by several influences: Henri CartierBresson, Sarah Moon, Michael Kenna, Irving Penn, Brassaï etc. His experience in theatre guides him to built scenographic images.