Biography
"As a child, I dreamed of becoming a comic book artist. Drawing is often the starting point of my creative process. I sketch ideas, capture images that come to my mind. My culture is comic books, musical theater, dancing in nightclubs, and... Oskar Schlemmer, the choreographer from the Bauhaus. Discovering photos of the characters from his Triadic Ballet was a revelation. I had long wanted to work with simple geometric shapes: a cube, a triangle. I enjoyed observing how these lines and volumes interacted with one another. Alwin Nikolaïs taught me the importance of light and costume, the certainty that everything could be mixed together. Technically, it was Merce Cunningham who taught me the most about dance. In New York, I attended his video workshops — fascinating. There, I learned to master the challenges of distance and geometry, the basic rules of optics and movement. Tex Avery inspired me greatly in the search for gestures that seemed impossible to perform. I still carry that desire with me, a quirk in movement, something extreme or delirious. I’m looking for a dance of imbalance, always on the verge of falling. With role models like the Marx Brothers, especially Groucho Marx, I cultivated a mischievous sense of risk, the comedic repetition of error..."