I am the Space Where I am

I wanted to paint corners that have the same characteristics as a portrait.

I like to see a corner as the germ of a room, a place where the unconscious resides.

Every space, house, or room is essentially an extension of the person who lives there. As an extra shell, a refuge, but also as a sound box, one that resonates with everything we experience. The places where we live, that’s where our thoughts live.

The house is one of the greatest forces of integration of thoughts, memories and dreams. In fact, you can say that the boundary between us and our place has blurred.

As the French author Noël Arnaud wrote: ‘Je suis l’espace où je suis’ (‘I am the space where I am’).

My work relates to this thought. Our living space affects us, but we also influence our space. We leave our traces, our thoughts and wishes, our sorrow and our happiness, walls have soaked them up. We can’t think back to all those things without imagining those spaces.

The places of our history are the vehicles of our memories. These places carry our past and hold on to it. We leave a part of ourselves behind in every place we have been for a while. Conversely, those places have also remained in us, inextricably linked to our memories those places remain a vital part of our present.