HYLÉ ὕλη

In ancient Greek, Hylé refers to the raw matter of the world, the original matter from which everything is created.   In Hylé, I crafted a wondrous world populated by chimeras. A small world where it is almost impossible to distinguish living entities from non-living, organic matter from mineral or cosmic elements.   The photographic development is as if reversed in the creative process: in pitch black obscurity, I paint and illuminate bodies and plants to gradually bring them to light using UV ray-sensitive pigments. The new material gradually takes shape and comes out of the darkness.   In a utopian perception of the human and their relation to nature, Hylé sublimates the bodies of overlooked people whose gender, sexuality or aesthetic norm here escape the tangible and any categorization. As per usual, the myth is used here as a political act, not so much to reveal than to transform reality and make visible a new “ order ” of nature which would welcome its “ disorder ”, and reveal all its beauty. // Thermal sublimations in handmade dichroïc glass boxes. //