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Serie « Corporate » : The Human Confronting the Frameworks that Bind
In the Corporate series, suited figures embody the condition of the individual within the company — and, by extension, within society.
They reveal how the human being bends to external structures — social, professional, even physical — that both confine and shape them. These successive constraints, like nesting dolls, restrict the soul while molding its contours, forcing individuals to reconcile their deepest aspirations with collective rules.
The series invites the viewer to follow a path of resilience and inner clarity, one that transcends the constraints inherent to any human organization — toward a state of balance and peace.
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Time to cover ?, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
116×89 cm
Beneath the pouring rain and the cold lights of the night, a seated man accepts the constraints surrounding him. Unprotected, encircled by cars, he does not resist the inevitable — instead, he draws from within the resources to inhabit it fully.
Time to Cover ? suggests that chaos can be perceived either as a burden or as a source of wonder. It is a quiet celebration of inner strength.
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Time to cover, 2024
Oil on canvas
116×89 cm
In the pouring rain, at night, a man steps into the light, covers himself, and sits — without hiding. In a world of feigned emergencies and rushed conformities, in a world driven by cautious reflexes where leaders hurry to take cover, this man embodies a different kind of leadership: one rooted in serenity, clarity, and quiet strength.
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Monkey Money, 2024
Oil on canvas
116×89 cm
Beneath the appearance of a masquerade, a scene unfolds — not as absurd as it may seem. Who truly holds the cards? Where does value really lie? In this theatre of appearances, the man in the suit and the monkeys exchange roles.
Irony turns into insight, laughter becomes revealing: What if what truly matters were elsewhere?
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Contre la montre, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
230×178 cm
« Against the clock (« Contre la montre ») — but in step with oneself »
In a world where everything is speeding up, he chooses conscious effort over blind escape.
The stopwatch shatters, yet he stands firm — focused, present, alive.
For the real race is not against time, but within it.
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Risk Taker 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
He moves forward between two towers, without certainty or safety net. He looks at us — somewhere between questioning and conviction. He bears neither the arrogance of a conqueror nor the recklessness of a gambler, but the lucidity of one who walks out of duty. In an uncertain world, he embodies a form of inner responsibility: to move forward nonetheless, despite fear, despite the void.
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Cherry on the cake 2024
Oil on canvas
81×65 cm
Everything appears perfect: the flawless suit, the stacked knowledge… the cherry neatly placed on top.
But what is he really looking at? And what is that cherry worth, if it crowns the forgetting of what truly matters?
Cherry on the Cake wryly questions our pursuit of success — and the sometimes absurd hierarchy of our desires.
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Glass ceiling 2024
Oil on canvas
81×65 cm
Beneath a glass roof that evokes both the architecture of power and its invisible boundaries, she does not yield.
Neither submissive nor rebellious, she embodies another kind of strength: that of quiet lucidity.
The ceiling may be made of glass — but her gaze has already moved beyond it.
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What’s Next 2024
Oil on canvas
81×65 cm
Seated in the eye of the storm, he neither flees nor rushes to act. His gaze — frank and direct — does not seek immediate answers; it questions, it anticipates.
What’s Next is not about post-crisis anxiety, but about creating space to choose the right move.
A posture of active pause, of inhabited stillness — because to act too quickly is sometimes to step back.
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Underwater 2024
Oil on canvas
116×89 cm
Beneath the surface, everything appears blurred — except him.
He moves forward, calm and clear-sighted, carried by an inner clarity that nothing can extinguish.
Even submerged in the unknown, he remains guided by the light he carries within.
Serie « Underwater« : Resilience and Inner Life
In Underwater, the same constraints are transposed into pressure, symbolised by water.
Total immersion — seemingly unlivable — becomes the setting for a quiet form of resistance: the man seated in meditation on the ocean floor, the woman who remains poised while holding her breath, embody a capacity to stay grounded even in the improbable.
Water is not merely a constraint; it becomes a metaphor for transformation — an initiatory trial through which human resilience is revealed.
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Whatever, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
Even under pressure, she radiates.
No flight, no fear — only presence.
The world may churn around her, yet she remains grounded, sovereign, free — as if the water itself were waiting for her decision.
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Whatever, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
The clock of the world has broken. Yet he remains calm, watchful. Seated in silence, he does not endure the chaos — he listens to it. His watch, still intact, beats to his own inner rhythm. He does not seek control over all things — only clarity.
For sometimes, true strength lies not in speeding up,
but in knowing when to rise
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Time’s up, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
She looks at her watch — not to follow time, but to confront it.
Underwater, as in the corporate world, the hourglass does not flow the same for everyone.
Hers speeds up; she’s told it’s already too late.
But she doesn’t yield to the alarm.
She turns the countdown into a time to rebuild.
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Zen, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
He is neither overwhelmed by urgency nor swept up in the turmoil.
Even in deep immersion, he chooses his course.
It is by remaining calm that he retains power —
over his decisions, his priorities, his path.
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The Bubble, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
116×89 cm
This childlike gaze is not a memory — it is a force we must learn to summon.
To navigate life without losing ourselves, we need to remember who we were when everything still seemed possible, and reconnect with that inner light.
That quiet sense of wonder, that instinctive bond with the world, that uncalculated trust — all lie dormant within us, ready to be awakened.
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Série « Women at Work« : Universal Human Dignity
With Women at Work, I highlight strength as embodied through the feminine.
But far from an identity-based statement, these figures serve as a reminder that dignity, energy, and creativity belong to the human being as such.
The woman becomes, here, a universal mirror of the soul’s embodied power.
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Trusted Leader, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
She does not seek to impress. She inspires.
Steady without arrogance, radiant without artifice,
she embodies a rare form of leadership — one that is not conquered, but earned.
Her strength lies not in control, but in the clarity of her vision.
It is this quiet precision that makes her an ally, not a rival..
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Age is just a number, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
She has nothing to prove — no need to look younger, no reason to apologize for being here.
Her age is not a limitation; it is a signature.
What emanates from her comes from far deeper than appearance.
It is the soul that acts, the intellect that leads, the experience that grounds her.
Her body is not a promise to be kept, but a channel of strength — the medium through which she transmits who she is, what she knows, and what she does.
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Yes ! , 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
She says “yes” to her own light.
Yes to who she is, to what she deserves, to what she embodies.
Not to please, nor to prove — but to celebrate.
Because she knows that the most powerful victory is an inner one.
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Break it ! , 2025
Acrylic on canvas
116×89 cm
They did not break through to destroy —
but to clear the way.
The glass ceiling is no longer a limit,
but a remnant they move through together.
No revenge, no permission:
only the quiet power of those
who know they already belong.
Serie « Memories« : The Fragility of Ideals
In Memories, I use emblematic historical monuments as witnesses to the human paradox.
Inspired by the highest ideals — liberty, equality, fraternity — humanity has often, when confronted with reality and its constraints (fear, rivalry, power), distorted these values, leading to violence and atrocity.
This series reminds us that such deviations are not confined to the past; they continue to threaten our present.
By placing silent figures within these sites of memory, I invite viewers to remain aware of this fragility — and to draw from it the inspiration needed to build a more harmonious future.
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Jacobin’s Remains, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
81×65 cm
Ideals are not enough — they must be embodied without being betrayed.
Seated before the remnants of a broken dream, he reflects on the chasm between ambition and instinct.
For it is often in the name of good that we unknowingly slip into violence or dogma.
The memory of the Jacobins still lingers: it calls us to vigilance — and to dignity.
Serie « Symbiosis« : Future Horizons and Responsibility
In Symbiosis, the reflection shifts toward the future: the question is no longer merely how to survive constraints, but how to build a more harmonious world.
Humankind, nature, and technology are not destined to be enemies — they can coexist in a virtuous balance.
This series affirms that we always have a choice: to yield to fear and humanity’s destructive tendencies, or to embrace a confident and creative vision.
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Symbiosis 3.0, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
120×120 cm
Balance will not come from rejecting progress,
nor from turning back, nor from asserting brute dominance.
It will come from awareness.
Here, man does not dominate the machine or nature — he connects with them, takes his place within them, fully.
The urgency is no longer to survive or to resist, but to invent a new alliance — one that does not betray our humanity.
Synthesis
Whether addressing the social constraints of corporate life, the invisible pressures symbolised by water, the weight of history, or the confrontation with technology, the series that shape my work all converge toward a single guiding thread: the human being under pressure — yet always capable of resilience, clarity, and elevation.
For me, fleeing the contradictions of our time makes little sense; I choose to expose them in order to transcend them.
This is why my figures — calm, upright, meditative — are not crushed by the tensions of their era or environment, but rather engage in dialogue with them.
They embody a posture: to resist fear, and to find within oneself the strength to engage with the world as it is.
My works are therefore less closed scenes than inspiring mirrors: they invite the viewer to recognise within themselves the same capacity for inner resistance, to accept their past, their surroundings, their identity — and to give voice to what is highest within them.
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